“Votes for Women!” Two Eastman Concerts Celebrate 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in New York State
Women voting in New York City, 1917 One hundred years ago (and three years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution), New York State granted universal suffrage to women. Western New York was one of the cradles of the women’s rights movement with the Seneca Falls Conference of 1848 and the…