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Lydia Taft
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
Women Who Voted in a Colonial Massachusetts Town Meeting
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Ten years ago, I noted the legend of Lydia Taft , a widow in Uxbridge who was said to have voted in a town meeting in 1756. That stat...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Growing Legend of Lydia Taft
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Today is the anniversary of the Constitution ’s 19th Amendment in 1920, guaranteeing American women the same voting rights as men. Some s...
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