that suffragist -- she was not a suffragist. she was a great politician. a really great politician. one of the things that you will see is women involved in national politics. one of the things they do have in common is that they are white . women of color have more luck in state and local elections. black women are very active in national politics. there are some very important players in the early 1920's the republican party. the overwhelming majority of black political advocates are republicans. it is the party of lincoln. democrats in the south are the creating jimed in crow laws and have been trying to disenfranchise black americans. many are solidly in the republican camp. after the suffragist amendment passes, the national republican committee asked black women leaders to organize. one of the first women who is called on by the rnc is a woman who had been a activist for about a decade at this link. she had been the president of the national organization for colored women. she worked very hard for republicans in the early 1920's. she actually turned the national association of

said she was not a suffragist and she did not know anything about politics. she goes and organizes democratic women in the early 1920's especially thereafter created. she is very good at it. she is set up for u.s. congress in 1924. she wins, she goes to congress and she has a landslide victory. over 80% of the vote in she stays and the u.s. congress until 1951. she is a huge dealer in the 30's. over the labores committee of the u.s. house. that is what she gets through the fair labor standards act which is the first time there was an type child labor laws. , she did notorton have a college degree, she was not a politician. she was that he suffered as when she was a great politician. a really great politician. one of the things that you will see is women involved in national politics. one of the things they do have in common is that they are white .aid black women are very active in national politics. there are some very important players in the early 1920's the overwhelming majority of black political advocates are the party of lincoln. democrats of the peopl

she was oregon's leading suffragists, plotting to give women the right to own property. fighting to give women the right to vote. five times it went to the ballot and five times men voted it down. it was not until 1912 that women got the right to vote in oregon when the petition and referendum voted for it. the great story is that, while abigail was doing all she good -- could, one of the opponents was harvey scott, abigail's brother. unfortunately, the editor of the ericksonian. now the most influential and powerful newspaper in this date. harvey was against giving women the right to vote. famously said one time, women would get the right to vote over his head body. he died in 1910 and they got the right to vote in 1912, so i guess it worked out for everybody. one of oregon's greek assets is our 363 miles of pacific ocean shoreline. way back in 1913, governor all's wild west, who was the first progressive governor declared all oregon's beaches to be public highways. private hotels and motels put on the beaches. fast-forward to 1966 when a motel owner in kanin beach on t

born in illinois in 1867, wells moved to wyoming when she turned 21 because the young suffragists could vote in wyoming. there, she met senator francis warren, whose patronage brought her to washington. senator warren appointed wells to the clerical staff. when he became chairman of appropriations in 1911, he brought wells with him, giving her the position of chief clerk, although it appears that the senate never gave her that official title. at the time, leona wells was unusual, a well-paid professional woman on capitol hill. in fact, she was so unusual that she attracted attention from the press. leona wells is probably the most envied women in government service, reported "the boston globe." not only did she earn a good salary, "to the globe" noted, but she was the first woman to be placed in charge of affairs of a big committee, while scouting new territory for female staff. but one area remained off-limits, the senate chamber. when chairman warren was on the floor doing committee business, wells had to wait outside. male community clerks -- committee clerks freely entered the chamb