The Ximenez-Fatio House Museum

Month: October 2020

  • Women’s Suffrage and the 1918 Pandemic

    Women’s Suffrage and the 1918 Pandemic

    Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of women suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change to the Constitution – the right for women to vote. In 1918, Spanish Influenza swept the globe infecting one-third of the world’s population. Just like today, the…