In 1841, nearly 500 female factory workers walked out of Saco’s York Manufacturing Company and paraded up Main Street, chanting and singing. Learn how a strike in one Maine town connected to national agitation for women’s rights, including suffrage.
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Earlier Event: March 26
The Struggle for Women's Suffrage: Revisiting Our History, Rededicating Our Future
Later Event: March 26
Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Fight for Woman Suffrage