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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Utah Grants And Un-Grants Women The Right To Vote (1870)
Description: It’s February 12th. This day in 1870, women in Utah become the first in the country to cast ballots in elections. But after granting women the right to vote, Utah then took it back a generation later.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss why Utah’s move towards women’s suffrage was tied up in questions of polygamy, and how rights can be taken back just as easily as they are enshrined.
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