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WRVM Collection,1992.0003.017, Gift of Mae Yamada
Intermediate English Grammar, 1904
The 1910 women’s suffrage law in Washington may have given white, educated women the right to vote - but denied it to anyone who couldn’t read and write English. Supporters hoped it would deter people they deemed “less intelligent” and recent immigrants from trying to participate in government. This language exclusion wasn’t fully repealed until 1974.