About 25 women celebrated winning the right to vote by marching on Main Avenue on Friday in Durango. The march started at Alpine Bank and ended at the Women’s Resource Center.
The march also marked the end of Women’s History Month, which was sponsored by Alpine Bank and organized by the Women Resource Center. Several other events were held in March, including the Extraordinary Women Awards Luncheon, in which three women were awarded for their public service, said Beth Drum, senior vice president at Alpine Bank.
Also, a hat-making party took place, in which women made hats like the suffragettes had worn. Women who fought for their right to vote in the early 20th century were called suffragettes. The hats were worn during the march on Friday.
In 1920, the suffragette movement in the U.S. led to the 19th Amendment, which prohibits U.S. citizens from being denied the right to vote based on sex.
Thomas Feiler is a student at the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany, and an intern at The Durango Herald.
