This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and read by Judy A. Carbone, President of AAUW-Garrett County Branch and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.
Catherine Sweet may have remained unknown to history if it were not for a front-page article published in The Sun of Baltimore, Maryland, on May 8, 1896. The article was about the first municipal election in the town of Loch Lynn Heights in Garrett County, Maryland. Catherine almost was the first woman to vote in a municipal election in the state, but in the end, that distinction was not to be hers.
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Elizabeth Forbes | Jailed for Freedom
Clara Barton | Battlefield to Ballot Box
Edna Latimer | Hiking for Suffrage
U.S. Senator Verda Welcome | True Public Servant
Elizabeth King Ellicott | Women in Government
The Melvin Family | Rural Suffrage Leaders
Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham & Lucy Branham | Mother-Daughter Suffrage Team
Henrietta Lacks | The Immortal
Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn | African American Suffrage History
Ballot & Beyond: Victorine Q. Adams | Energizing African American Voters
Ballot & Beyond: Lavinia Margaret Engle | Protecting Women's Voting Rights
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Ballot & Beyond: Maxwell, Kelly, Howard | First Female Voters of Maryland
Ballot & Beyond: Judge Diana G. Motz | Protecting Women's Rights
Ballot & Beyond: Lucille Clifton | Maryland State Poet Laureate
Ballot & Beyond: Lucy Diggs Slowe | First Lady of Tennis
Ballot & Beyond: The Honorable Rita C. Davidson | Serving Maryland's Highest Court
Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Liebe Sokol Diamond | Renowned Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Ballot & Beyond: Sara A. Whitehurst | Jury Service for Women
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