League of Women Voters Celebrates Women's Suffrage

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Local activists yesterday celebrated the 90th anniversary of women's earning the right to vote dressed in poodle skirts, hippie garb, flapper dresses and costumes dating to the beginning of the suffrage movement.

"Ninety years ago, the men who opposed women's suffrage argued that women prefer rest and quietude to political participation," said Allyson Lowe, chair of the political science department at Carlow University. "Today's gathering proves that argument flat wrong."

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League of Women Voters Celebrates Women's Suffrage

About 100 people in Mellon Square, Downtown, also marked Women's Equal...

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