History Revealed Series, in partnership with the Ramsey County  Historical Society and the Roseville Library.  

Examining how women won the right to vote in Minnesota and the Midwest  reveals how Midwesterners changed their conceptions of citizenship in  the early twentieth century. Women earned the ballot during World War I,  when demonstrating patriotism became an expected part of the war  effort. Mobilizing for the war, which so many midwestern suffragists did  quite willingly, served as a testament to their loyalty to both  community and country. They also leveraged that mobilization against the  alleged disloyalty of immigrants in the region whom they attacked as  slackers. Suffragists claimed that exercising the right to vote was an  expression of duty, rather than just a natural right.