KEARNEY, Neb., Sept. 29 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:
WHAT: Brown Bag Lecture Series
HOSTED BY: UNK Department of History
TITLE: "Without the Vote: Nebraska Women's Patchwork of Politics Before 1920"
TOPIC: What did women's political involvement look like before the 19th Amendment gave them the right to vote? Historians underplay the impact of political women in non-suffrage states, where women had to wait until 1920 to vote. Nebraska was one of these states. But as this presentation shows, withholding the vote from Nebraska women did not keep them from participating in politics. Before 1920, Nebraska women engaged in campaigns as suffragists and reformers, pushed for the right to run for schoo...