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Episode 1: New Mexico’s Road to the Vote

Illustration of torch-bearing woman labeled "VOTES FOR WOMEN" walks across the western U.S. into the east.

The American Southwest played a key role in the woman suffrage battle, as Western states led the charge to ratify the 19th Amendment. New Mexico’s fight to ensure women the right to vote, however, had a much different trajectory. After the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the United States took over the territory once belonging…

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