The Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association headquarters in Lincoln. (Bryn Mawr College Archives)
KEARNEY — University of Nebraska – Kearney lecture will highlight Nebraska women’s early political influence at the Kearney Public Library on Oct. 14.
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
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