Middlebury College Museum of Art has prepared a special exhibit, Votes…for Women?, which explores the question of whether women should be granted suffrage:  Below are some questions this exhibit helps answer:

 “Should American women vote?” Why was this even a question? In the world’s most prominent democracy, why haven’t women been allowed to participate fully from the start?

While a relative few voices publicly questioned the prohibition against women voting in the decades following the country’s founding, most Americans did not wholeheartedly consider this question until the last century. The activists who took on the cause of woman suffrage came from all walks of life and all corners of the country.

This exhibit of vintage photographs, banners, and memorabilia coincides with the 100th anniversary of the campaign to ratify the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1920