ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) - A marker has been placed in Elizabethtown to note the history of the women’s suffrage movement there and to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The marker was placed at Glendale Park by Capt. Jacob Van Meter Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, The News-Enterprise reported.
Joyce Miller of the Capt. Jacob Van Meter Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution said women in Glendale organized in 1867 to promote equality. At the forefront of the movement was a private women’s liberal arts college, according to the marker. The movement grew briefly, but soon disappeared.
It was decades later, on Aug. 26, 1920, that the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified.
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