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A FASHIONABLE FIGHT Arizona Questers shares the story —and clothing — of women’s suffrage
Arizona Questers, left to right, Linda Starr, Diana Magers, Toni Lowden, Debbie Hansen and Mary Miller.
By Karen Werner
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave American women the right to vote. Ratified on Aug. 26, 1920, women’s suffrage will celebrate its centennial this year. To commemorate the milestone, the Arizona Questers — a nonprofit group dedicated to historic preservation, restoration and education — spearheaded a statewide project. Questers has worked with other nonprofit, civic and 34 FRONTDOORS MEDIA | FEBRUARY 2020
governmental organizations to raise funds for and create traveling displays that reveal the monumental significance of the 19th Amendment. But the fight to get the vote stretches back more than a century. It dates back 72 years earlier to when a group of women took the radical step of asking for the vote in Seneca Falls, New York, at the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848.
