Epigraphs: The Vote: Women’s Fierce Fight, Part III, Chapter 7

This statement by Madame Lillian Nordica is the epigraph for The Vote: Women’s Fierce Fight, Chapter 7: A Whirlwind  From shore to shore let rights be flashed

My parents passed their love for opera  on to me so I was delighted to discover Madame Lillian Nordica’s role in the 1911 woman suffrage referendum in California. Male voters had soundly defeated the California Women’s Suffrage Amendment in an 1896 referendum. In 1911, suffragists launched a “whirlwind campaign.” Veterans of the losing 1896 campaign and new recruits, and suffragists from across America seized their task with “unbounded enthusiasm.” As, did the opposition.

A special election was scheduled for October 10. At noon, on October 9, suffragists were

The next day, Election Day, a large photograph and an article headlined: DIVA SINGS

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