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Timeline
| 1876- |
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Colorado State Constitution allows local school suffrage for women; Colorado Woman Suffrage Association founded.
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| 1877- |
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State referendum for women's suffrage ends in defeat.
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| 1879- |
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Caroline Churchill begins publishing the suffrage newspaper, The Colorado Antelope, later called The Queen Bee.
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| 1890- |
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Journalist Ellis Meredith organizes Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association.
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| 1892- |
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People's Party candidate Davis Waite elected governor on pro-suffrage platform.
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| 1893- |
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Male voters approve full suffrage for women. |
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After Colorado's victorious suffrage campaign in
1893, Denver magazines like The Woman Voter and Western Woman in June,
1894, touted the accomplishments of western women voters throughout the
region and nation. At first, Susan B. Anthony had grave doubts whether
the west's rough and tumble male voters would ever support suffrage. The
nation's first suffrage victory by popular election in Colorado restored
her resolve to win the rest of the west.
Colorado Historical Society
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