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We Won The Vote: 100 Years of Equal Suffrage in California

Presented by Historic Old Sacramento Foundation/Sacramento History Museum at Sacramento History Museum

June 16-September 16, 2011

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After a long and innovative campaign, California women won the right to vote in a special election on October 10, 1911. The 1911 California victory for woman suffrage was the culmination of a long, hard-fought battle to win political freedom and basic civil rights. California was the sixth western state to win the vote for women, inspiring suffragists nationwide and increasing national attention on what had long been a controversial political and moral debate. With the 1911 triumph of equal enfranchisement, six-hundred thousand California women doubled the number of women who could vote in the United States.

The campaigns in the West, and California's in particular, set new standards for bold actions, new ideas, and successful techniques for efforts in other states across the nation. It helped to build up electoral power and political support in the nation's capital to finally ensure passage of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, granting American women the right to vote in 1920.

This exhibition will feature historical photographs, period campaign materials, objects, and oral histories designed to guide the visitor through the history of the successful 1911 campaign for woman's suffrage in California. Highlighted are specific issues and activities of the California campaign, and how the state's experience related to and dramatically affected the way the national campaign played out over the next decade. Visitors will actively engage in the debate over women's right to vote through the incorporation of historical questions, objective presentations of both sides of the issue, and interactive displays.

We Won the Vote! 100 Years of Equal Suffrage is scheduled to open June 16, 2011 and run through September 16, 2011. It will then move to the State Capitol Museum from October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012.

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    Sacramento History Museum

    101 I Street
    Sacramento, CA 95814

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    Adults (18+) $5
    Youth (Age 6-17) $4
    Members & Children (Age 0-5) Free

    Info Phone: (916) 808-7059

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    Dates:
    June 16-September 16, 2011

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    Daily 10am-5pm
    *Last admission at 4:30pm
    *Museum is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year’s Day.

    
    
    

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