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On This Day - 2025-05-09 : 1914 Mass meeting and march to Capitol by Congressional Union for Women Suffrage.
On This Day - 2025-05-09 : 1865 Sojourner Truth addresses American Equal Rights Association, sings “We Are Going Home”

On This Day - 2025-05-09 : 1914 Mass meeting and march to Capitol by Congressional Union for Women Suffrage.
On This Day - 2025-05-09 : 1865 Sojourner Truth addresses American Equal Rights Association, sings “We Are Going Home”

09 Feb

Indigenous Peoples Day

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09 Feb

1911 Women gain vote in California.

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09 Feb

1918 NWP starts to picket the US capitol.

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09 Feb

1918 Suffrage amendment fails in Senate by two votes.

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09 Feb

1918 President Wilson addresses Senate in support of women’s suffrage.

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09 Feb

1915 Suffragists Sara Bard Field and Frances Joliffe leave San Francisco by automobile.

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09 Feb

1875 Matilda Gage writes about Five Nations confederacy where women “exercise power in peace and war.”

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09 Feb

1789 US Constitution signed; states keep authority to decide who can vote.

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09 Feb

1917 Senator Andrieus Jones visits Occoquan Workhouse prisoners.

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09 Feb

1915 18,000-foot-long suffrage petition reaches a half-million signatures.

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