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Tag Archives: Grace Hebard
University of Wyoming Commencement Exercises: Looking Back 100 Years to June 8, 1926
What were commencement exercises like at the University of Wyoming a century ago? The question might seem rather mundane at first, but when the American Heritage Center recently received a UW diploma from the family of 1926 graduate Carl A. … Continue reading →
Posted in 20th century, Academia, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming Alumni, University of Wyoming history
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Tagged Aven Nelson, Business, Cheyenne, Clara McIntyre, Commencement, Diploma, George Tayloe Ross, Grace Hebard, Harriet Orr, John Corbett, June Downey, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Robert Burns, S.H. Knight, University of Wyoming
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Putting the Women Back into Women’s Suffrage
In 1869, Wyoming passed its groundbreaking woman suffrage law. Wyoming’s women were voting and holding public office decades before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. Indeed, the successful implementation of woman suffrage in Wyoming and other western states was critical … Continue reading →
Posted in grants, Laramie, Local history, Suffrage -- United States, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming history, Women -- suffrage, women's history, Wyoming, Wyoming history
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Tagged 19th Amendment, Amalia Post, Emma Smith DeVoe, Grace Hebard, Grace Raymond Hebard, Laramie County, Mary Bellamy, Nineteenth Amendment, Suffrage, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming history, women's history, Wyoming, Wyoming history
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The 19th Amendment and Wyoming’s own Grace Raymond Hebard
“To get thirty sixth state, mobilizing one woman each state…want you and only you…” So wrote national woman suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt on April 12, 1920 in a telegram to Wyoming historian, prolific writer, and noted University of Wyoming … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized, Women -- suffrage, Women in History, women's history, Women's suffrage, Wyoming history
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Tagged 19th Amendment, Carrie Chapman Catt, Grace Hebard, Grace Raymond Hebard, Suffrage, Women Empowerment, women's suffrage, Women's Equality, women's history, Women's Rights
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