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Caroline Severance

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367
Estimated Value
26 USD
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 Caroline Serverance
Caroline Severance was born in western New York when it was the frontier of the US.  She ended her life on another wester frontier, in Los Angeles California .  She has been recognized as one of the "builders of the city of Los Angeles." As  founder of the Women's Club Movement, she advocated the rights of women and worked for the full particiaption as citizens.  She was one of the leaders of the campaign that led to California women winning the vote in 1911.  Although  she died before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, she, like so many of the women before her, helped build the foundation for the enfranchisement of all American women. 

383 pages, paper



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