Homegrown History

Women's Suffrage: First Female Voters in Limestone County


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Rebekah and Richard discuss the 19th Amendment and history of women's suffrage. A controversial subject, in Limestone County groups of women banded together to register for their right to vote. Rebekah and Richard identify some of these early women and men who championed the cause. Find out why the Tennessee legislature made a run for the Alabama border in a last ditch effort to thwart the amendment!

https://limestonecounty-al.gov/departments/archives/

https://www.alcpl.org/

Music from Pixabay 

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Homegrown HistoryBy Athens-Limestone County Public Library

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