In 1887, Kansas granted women the right to vote in municipal elections. Afraid of the temperance movement, some townsmen made a joke nomination for mayor.
Category: History
Leading on a White Horse, Girl Wants Voting Rights
What image comes to mind when you think of the women’s suffrage movement in America? A woman in a long suffragette white dress? Is she Chinese? She was.
The Daughter of the Desert
The dashing British officer Lawrence of Arabia, is a legend of history. Yet, we should recognize the name, Gertrude Bell, along with (or more than) his.
The Unsolved Murder of Alberta Odell Jones
An African American equal rights trailblazer and the city’s first female and first black prosecuting attorney was brutally murdered. The case remains unsolved.
The Rosa Parks of the Modern Trans Movement
Sylvia Rivera hated labels almost as much as she hated discrimination. Some call her the Rosa Parks of the Modern Trans movement.