We've Come a Long Way, Baby!

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Women have been strong and put up with a lot. Still are. But, we have come quite a ways only to fall backward thanks to Mr. Orange. Hopefully we can get some back after he leaves office. Here's a few things from history that I found interesting and wanted to share: * Women were allowed to vote in Wyoming first in 1869. They also used this as a ploy to attract women out West. * Women did not get the vote across the entire country until 1920. * A former slave, Lucy Terry Prince, represented herself against false land claims from white neighbors. The judge told her that her argument was better than any Vermont lawyers had ever heard. * Mississippi was the first state to allow women to have property in their own name. * Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1916. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman elected as justice of the Supreme Court in 1981.