Votes for Women

Eight years before the Nineteenth Amendment, Arizona women won the vote themselves. On this Bisbee corner in September 1912, suffragist Laura G. Cannon made her case to a crowd of working men, and that November Arizona's voters approved women's suffrage by ballot initiative, part of the young state's Progressive streak. A copper camp's miners and their families were exactly the electorate the movement needed to reach. The marker remembers a grassroots campaign that put Arizona years ahead of the federal amendment it would later ratify.

What the plaque says

Votes for Women. Road to the 19th Amendment. Invited by State Suffrage Assn, Laura G. Cannon spoke to crowd of working men here Sept. 26, 1912. AZ women won right to vote that November.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bisbee — steps away
  Queen of the Copper Camps — and the deportation it tried to forget
• Tombstone — 21 mi
  The silver strike named for a death that never came

More markers nearby

• Copper Queen Plaza — steps away
• Phelps Dodge General Office Building — steps away
• Brewery Gulch — steps away
• Bisbee City Fire Hall — steps away