{"id":13760,"date":"2019-11-07T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=13760"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:13:29","slug":"november-7th-is-the-126th-anniversary-of-women-voting-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2019\/11\/07\/november-7th-is-the-126th-anniversary-of-women-voting-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"November 7th is the 126th Anniversary of Women Voting in Colorado!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, we join in commemorating an important milestone in the history of women’s suffrage.\u00a0On this day in 1893<\/strong>, voters in the Centennial State passed constitutional amendment HB 118, prohibiting discrimination against women in voting laws.<\/p>\n

It was the first time that our nation extended voting rights beyond men\u2014not by a stroke of the pen\u2014but by popular vote.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And right after making history in 1893, Colorado voters did so again one year later. They went on to become the nation\u2019s first to elect women to their state legislature.<\/p>\n

Then, as soon as women joined the electorate, and then government, laws and politics immediately began to change in ways beneficial to all Coloradans.<\/a> This is why the vision of the Women\u2019s Vote Centennial Colorado<\/a> is a future where Coloradans of every background and identity prosper.<\/p>\n

Yet this is not a history of swift and unqualified progress.<\/strong> In fact, it took 16 years for voters in Colorado to choose more democratic voting laws. The first attempt to extend voting rights, in 1877, was soundly defeated\u2014and battles for the right to vote had only just begun.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

There are powerful truths inherent in this history:<\/p>\n