Women Suffrage in Kentucky

By Lexie.C.M2005

  • Women Who Are Heads of Households Get a Vote

    Women who were heads of households and taxpayers won the right to vote on tax and education issues in rural areas of Kentucky.

  • Virginia Penny

    Virginia Penny of Louisville became Vice President of the American Equal Rights Association.

  • AWSA Annual Convention Comes to Louisville

    Daughter of abolitionist Cassius M. Clay, Mary helped bring the AWSA Annual Convention to Louisville , the first national suffrage convention held south of the Mason-Dixon line.

  • Women Win School Suffrage

    Women won school suffrage in Lexington, Covington, and Newport.

  • Laura Clay

    Laura Clay became Vice President of the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, founded by Kate Gordon, to coordinate efforts across the South to win the vote in the states.

  • 19th Amendment

    Kentucky voted to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.