19th Amendment, League of Women Voters on This Week in Moab

Members of the executive committee of the national suffragists’ convention and prominent local suffragists snapped this photo with Senator Reed Smoot in August 1915 outside of the Hotel Utah, after meeting with him to ensure his support for a federal women’s suffrage amendment in the next Congress. Learn more at Better Days 2020.

Sometimes in order to see the future, you need to examine the past. On the latest This Week in Moab, host Christy Williams-Dunton delves into the 19th amendment with guest Carey Dabney, of the League of Women Voters. The ratification of women’s right to vote happened on August 18th, 1920 – exactly 150 years ago. Learn more about the suffrage movement in Utah, and what our state’s history could mean for our future.