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Celebrating Centennial: Arizona Women

Celebrating Arizona’s Centennial

From Pioneer home, Ft. Apache, AZ
From a pioneer home, Ft. Apache, AZ

Two brand new books and one from last year, celebrate some of the women who helped build Arizona in the past 100 years, and the years when it was a Territory. Women were celebrated in Arizona from the beginning. Arizona wrote women’s suffrage into their constitution, making it one of the first states to allow women to vote, and one year after the territory became a state, a woman was elected to public office. We currently have a woman Governor (our fourth). The Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame celebrates Arizona women in the state capitol of Phoenix. Continue reading Celebrating Centennial: Arizona Women