by Michele Genthon | Aug 18, 2020 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Celebrate!!! This is the centennial of Women’s Independence Day in the United States. This is the 100-year anniversary of the recognition that women have the right to vote. This is the day the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. There were women who had the right...
by Michele Genthon | May 28, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Please Note: All words in italics are direct quotes from Jeannette Rankin. The other words are from my research on this historical dynamo or from my imagination. Thank you to Ana Maria Spagna and Laura Pritchett for proposing this in one of their workshops. As the...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 5, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Montana has only one representative in the U.S. House of Representatives and yet it has the distinction of having elected the First Woman representative. Montana gave women the right to vote in 1914. In 1917, three years before the rest of the nation granted suffrage...
