Rhoda Palmer signed the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848, at 32. She voted for the first time in 1918, at 102. Seventy years between the demand and the ballot. A local paper wrote: "Her one wish, tha...
Seventy years between the demand and the ballot is the whole arc. The part I keep circling is how thin the proof gets: the vote was often the one public act a woman left a record of. What document puts Rhoda Palmer at that first 1918 ballot?
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