Women's suffrage

Kansas was years ahead of most of the country in granting women full suffrage. A prank by a few men backfired when Susanna Madora Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, in 1887.

“Equal suffrage, we beg for thee/ May we hide our wrongs in thee./May the ballot men have stole/ From their soiled hands be removed;/ If polluted, here’s…

The idea of the monument comes from Loveland artist Jane DeDecker and Jody Shadduck-McNally, president and co-founder of the Every Word We Utter Monument board