New Time Women's Suffrage in Western States Interest Group SATURDAY 7 12

 Bad Friend Version of Interest Group Description for NPYM Annual Session

In-person only.

Are you peeved, annoyed, terrified...by the 2025 timeline. May I recommend HISTORY?

Come One. Come all. for a romp through many western states' path to full women's suffrage, statehood, full recognition of native rights...

Thank you, Professor Google and the AI that kept trying to poke in. No thank you ChatGPT

Content Warning.

There will be racism. 

There will be sexism. 

There will be peculiar homage to Rep. Lauren Boebert, R CO and to settler colonialism.

There will be slavery / enslavement. There will be pressure to move away from slavery. 

There will be civil war. and testy relationships between the federal government and territories / states

There will be times of great progress, times of backlash or backsliding. There will be relentless campaigns. 

There will be multiple state and federal constitutional amendments. 

There will be polygamy and holy, expedient revelation.. 

Probably there are transgender people but for this period in history, don't try to find them via Google.

Toward the end there may be reflections on modern voting rights and voter suppression, voter registration, how much difference even a few votes can make.

Never Give up!

With that, THE OUTLINE

Women’s Suffrage in Western States

 

Thank you, partly, to Lauren Boebert for the original nudge to look into this topic.

My family’s history as homesteaders

Jeanette Rankin

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."

After decades of arguments for and against women's suffrage, Congress finally passed the 19th Amendment in June 1919. At least 36 states still needed to vote in favor of it for it to be added to the Constitution and become law. This process is called ratification. In August of 1920, 36 states ratified the 19th Amendment, ensuring that the right to vote could not be denied based on sex.

 

Below is an alphabetical list state by state of when a number of Western States became states, when women attained full suffrage and a lot of bumps along the way.

 

Research credit to Professor Google and two search strings

[name of state] statehood

[name of state] womens suffrage

 

This approach yielded bundles of fascinating information, and this talk is barely going to skim the stories.

 

Alaska

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
1959	March 13, 1913 First session of AK legislature For non-native women!	Until 1924, Federal law held that natives were not citizens.

 

Arizona

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
February 14, 1912	1891 Voted down in first drafting of the State Constition     1912   Vote secured by initiative	Part of Arizona and New Mexico claimed by the Confederacy but the Confederacy never controlled Original state constitution has a provision about recalling judges that was removed to speed approval of statehood Arizona's Five C's are: Copper, Cattle, Cotton, Citrus and Climate. In the early years of the state, the five C's served an important role in the economy,

 

California

 

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
September 9. 1850	Loss 1896 Women’s suffrage act 1911 State legilslaure	Compromise of 1850 Gold Rush

 

 

Colorado

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
August 1, 1876	1876 failed effort   1893 by popular referendum which did not exclude women of color

 

 

Hawaii

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
Augst 1, 1959	19th Amendment in 1919

 

 

Idaho

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
July 3, 1890	1896 by constitutional amendment

 

 

Montana

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
November 8, 1889	November 3, 1914 By Constituional amendment with 53% of men voting in favor.

 

 

Nevada

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
October 31, 1864	State Constituional amendment 1914, Ratified 19th Amendment in 1920.	With Virginia, second state admitted during the civil war

 

 

New Mexico

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative

 

New Mexico

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
January 6, 1912	Had right to vote when a terrirtry Ratified 19th Amendment in 1919	(Genizero)

 

Oregon

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
February 1859	Campaigns from 1870 to 1912

 

Utah

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
US territory 1850 only white men could vote	Equal suffrage law 1870   1871-1887 disenfranchisement 18871896	Lost vote when federal anti polygamy act took away rights of all women to vote.   After 1890 LDS church ended recognition of polygame and UT as invited to join the Union.

 

 

 

Mormon church and polygamy

Gaining, Losing, and Winning Back the Vote: The Story of Utah Women’s Suffrage - Utah Women's History - Better Days

 

Washington

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
November 11. 1889	1870-1912 campaigns

 

The History of Voting and Elections in Washington State

 

Wyoming

 

Year of Statehood	Key Women’s Suffrage dates	Narrative
July 10, 1890	WY territory legislature granted women the right to vote 1869

 

 

 

When a community rises up AND reminders about Constitutional issues

Trump’s ICE Raid Backfires Spectacularly

The Big bad Bonkers budget busting billionaire bailout boondoggle.

Posted with minimal comment in a spirit of listening.

But wait: WHO THE HECK believes anything the White House says, and do people who voted for the bill even take minimal responsibility for knowing what is in it?

Some interesting points for WA

RantWoman has serious issues with a certain South African billionaire owning and controlling all the things he controls, but RantWoman is wondering whether a Musk challenge would energize democrats enough...?

Congressman describes meeting with Trump about 'One Big Beautiful Bill' ...

As an aside, Dan Newhouse WA04 is one of two remaining Republicans who voted to impeach President Orange in 2020.

Really important channel about military and national guard issues.

Trump’s Secret Blueprint BLOWN WIDE OPEN by VETERAN

LOTS of really specific insight about the national guard, the Marines, the President, and LOTS of signalling.

30% of national guard in CA are either foreign born or from foreign born families.

REALLY important comments about what is interpreted as violence and pretexts for various actions.

Further rant available about how the military exploits people's dedication and yet further rant about how this plays out for interpreters who take HUGE risks to themselves and their families and then get treated like crap in bureaucratic hell when they try to hold the US military to its promises.

Riot fencing

Saturday evening, RantWoman learned that the US Senate has passed whatever its final rendition of the President's Big Bad Bonkers Budget Busting Billionaire Bailout Boondoggle.

RantWoman assumes all this fencing is going up in anticipation of public reaction, although one voice here commented that #IndependenceDay will also soon be upon us.

Week 4 Pre-Annual Session Worship Sharing

 Queries as received for Week 4

At the beginning of each session read: Rumi poem and Isaac Pennington quote 

Fourth meeting: 

• Do I give over my own willing, running, and desiring in order to sink down to the seed within me? How can I use my time at annual session to practice this?

See comments for weeks 1,2,3 as led.

RantWoman and the RSOF: Clerk's letter from Sierra Cascade YM annual session

I offer these simple queries as you prepare for our gathering. 

● How has Love shown up for you lately? 

● What helps you center Love in your interactions with others? 

RantWoman and the RSOF: My Friend. Poem by Nikai Sherlock

This all of course is probably way too much and RantWoman has not even gotten to all the themes making her head explode, but this has to be enough for today.

Clerk's letter from Sierra Cascade YM annual session

RantWoman was just going to slurp the queries to nourish this year's pre-annual-Session Zoom worship group. But RantWoman decided the whole text is needed to help clear out some fog for RantWoman. 

RantWoman intended to Zoom to some of the SCYM Annual Session. That has not happened, except hopefully for closing worship in a few hours.

 Clerk’s Message 

How many times have you attended a SCYMF gathering? Maybe this will be your very first one. Or maybe. Like me, you’ve attended every annual sessions since our formative gathering in July of 2017 and every gathering since then. We’ve seen, heard, experienced, learned, and grown together over these years. We’ve worshipped, sung songs, grieved, discerned, tried new ways of being a community, made mistakes, grown—and still we gather. I always look forward to our time together, which is never long enough. 

For me this year’s theme, Centered in Love, builds on all our other sessions. It builds on what we strive for in our local meetings. It builds on what our world needs from us. We face what seems like uncharted territory, but Friends have faced similar crises over the centuries with faithfulness and love. Matt Boswell will lead us in worship and reflection as we trust Spirit to open to us our next steps. 

This is my final meeting for business to co-clerk for SCYMF. I have cherished co-clerking with Mike Huber and Erin Craig. My relationships with many people in the yearly meeting have deepened as we have worked together at better becoming the beloved community we are to be. I have such appreciation for the faithfulness of so many who volunteer to serve on committees, host gatherings, represent SCYMF to other organizations, and who take care of each other. I will continue to walk alongside you as we continue to grow into a stronger, more loving, community that values curiosity, recognizes harm and is willing to respect the perspectives and experiences of others with love. 

I offer these simple queries as you prepare for our gathering. 

● How has Love shown up for you lately? 

● What helps you center Love in your interactions with others? 

Norma Silliman, she/her, Presiding Co-clerk

Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends