VOTES FOR WOMEN
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National Votes for Women Trail
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House, People
- 1340 Pennsylvania St, Denver, CO 80203, USA
- 39.737474, -104.980994
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National Collaborative for Women's History Sites
VOTES FOR WOMEN
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VOTES FOR WOMENHOME OF MARGARET BROWN,
‘TITANIC’ SURVIVOR & NATIONAL
ADVOCATE FOR SUFFRAGE & LABOR
RIGHTS. PROPOSED AS CANDIDATE
FOR U.S. SENATE 1914.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021
In 1893, Colorado voters approved women’s suffrage through a referendum, giving Colorado women the right to vote. After this, Colorado suffragists worked for women’s suffrage at the national level. Margaret “Molly” Brown (1867–1932), was a national advocate for women’s suffrage and labor rights. In 1914, she joined the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and attended a suffrage convention hosted by Alva Belmont at her Marble House mansion in Rhode Island. Soon after, Brown was proposed as a candidate for U.S. Senate by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. In addition to women’s suffrage, Brown supported labor issues, including improved pay and working conditions for mine workers in Colorado. Brown however withdrew from consideration before the election. With the onset of World War I, she began serving with the Red Cross in France.
Brown became known by the moniker “Unsinkable Molly Brown” in reference to her survival of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, on which she was a first-class passenger. In the 1970s, the Molly Brown House Museum was opened in her former home on Pennsylvania Street in Denver, Colorado.
