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Fashioning the vote: How fashion helped suffragists gain voting rights
Fashioning the vote: How fashion helped suffragists gain voting rights
8/7/20204:54

Fashion can say a lot about you, including your politics. The same was true for suffragists in the early 1900s. Fashion was used as a unique tactic by Washington and Seattle suffragists to gain voting rights. But what these activists wore didn't come without criticism. Video courtesy of Southwest Seattle Historical Society

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