1893 Colorado women's suffrage referendum

Men and women outside a polling station in Colorado 1893.

On November 7, 1893, a referendum on women's suffrage was held in Colorado that secured women's voting rights. Subsequently, Colorado became the first American state to enact women's suffrage by popular referendum. The act granted women the right to vote "in the same manner in all respects as male persons are."[1]

  1. ^ "Notice of General Election". Vol. 4, no. 41. Silverton Standard. August 19, 1893. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

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