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May 18, 2020 Welcome back to Reading Club! Up to this point, we have discussed the creative methods women from all walks of life used to gain voting rights, from bicycles to pop culture. Once the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, suffragists wanted to enshrine this important step forward in American history — but […]

by Katherine Kitterman, Better Days 2020 Historical Director May 13, 2020 125 years ago today, the Rocky Mountain suffrage convention opened in Salt Lake City. As women packed into the Salt Lake City and County Building, national suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Howard Shaw took the stand. Seated next to them were leaders […]

May 11, 2020 A warm welcome back to Better Days 2020 Reading Club! Last week we dove into the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade; this week, we turn to Indigenous activists’ fight for political legitimacy. The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, but many women and men were still ineligible to vote due to racist and […]

by Tiffany Greene, Better Days 2020 Historical Research Consultant May 10, 2020 Today we honor the mothers and other women in our lives whose hard work, example, and support help us grow to our full potential. Here are a few mother/daughter duos in Utah suffrage history: Hannah Kaaepa and Makanoe Kahluhilaau Kaaepa: Twenty-five-year-old Hannah Kaaepa […]

By Katherine Kitterman, Better Days 2020 Historical Director May 7, 2020 Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of V-E Day! Here’s a sampling of Utah women’s experiences on the home front during World War Two. After the United States entered the war in December 1941, millions of men were called up for military service and women […]

May 4, 2020 The day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) held a parade down Washington, DC’s Pennsylvania Avenue in support of a constitutional women’s suffrage amendment. It was the first large, organized, political march on Washington in U.S. history. The parade was organized by Alice Paul, […]

by Tiffany Greene, Better Days 2020 Historical Research Consultant April 30, 2020 We live in an era when communication happens instantaneously; we can send a text across zip codes and state lines and get a response within a few seconds. Our now-frequent virtual meetings allow us to not only talk with co-workers, friends, and family […]

April 27, 2020 We’ve read five articles together through the Better Days 2020 Reading Club, and we hope you’ve enjoyed all of them so far! We have some great topics planned for the next few weeks, so make sure to stay tuned to our social media for our weekly posts. When we discussed the division […]

April 20, 2020 Welcome back to another week of the Better Days 2020 Reading Club! We hope you enjoyed last week’s article on rivalries within the women’ suffrage movement. This week, we’ll be taking a little bit of a different direction. For the this week’s reading club, we’re jumping back in time and looking at […]

By Katherine Kitterman and Rebekah Clark April 18, 2020 125 years ago, in the spring of 1895, delegates gathered in Salt Lake City to write a state constitution for Utah. Each of the 107 male delegates came to the convention pledged to support women’s equal voting rights. Utah suffragists had spent the past five years […]

April 13, 2020 Welcome to Week Four of the Better Days 2020 Reading Club! We hope you enjoyed last week’s article. This week’s article was written by Dr. Lisa Tetrault, who we read from our very first week about the Seneca Falls Convention. We’ll be learning about the divisions and tensions that arose within the […]

April 6, 2020 Welcome back to another week of the Better Days Reading Club! We are really excited about this week’s topic because of its ties to Utah history, but also because it relates to modern women’s rights movements as well. The article we’ll be reading together this week is by Adrienne LaFrance in The […]