re: #20 SanFranciscoZionist

Sutter Creek, July 4, 1880

The orator of the day, Laura deForce Gordon, delivered a fine address, replete with humorous allusions to woman’s rights and the men for once having to take a back seat, interspersed with serious and patriotic references to the dark days of our Republic and the glorious future to which it will attain. The fair oratress was loudly applauded during her remarks, and at the close a gentleman—the first and only time one of that humbled sex even tried to speak—proposed that every man present join in three rousing cheers for the orator of the day, which were given with a will.

SFPL is doing a whole exhibit on suffrage.

sfpl.org

“In July of 1871, 200 black women, dressed as men, voted in Johnson County, NC” ecssba.rutgers.edu

Excellent!