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Article: Susan B. Anthony champions cause of women -- then and now.(Originated from Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- May 23, 1995
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It shocked me to realize that the year I was born was the year American women gained the right to vote. Imagine! We've had this right for only 75 years, though our nation is almost 219 years old.
I was the first girl in my family to grow up with the knowledge that my male relatives weren't the only ones who could mark X's on a ballot. I, too, would have a say in who became president, mayor, school board president and much more.
How sad that so many of our foremothers never experienced the power of the vote to improve life for themselves and their families. As for women holding political office? Only the little band of suffragettes who battled more than seven ...