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    Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA) was the first permanent statewide women's rights organization in Kentucky. Founded in November 1888, the KERA...
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    Laura Clay (category Suffragists from Kentucky)
    1849 – June 29, 1941), co-founder and first president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement. She...
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    The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It was...
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  • Columbus Equal Rights Association, founded in 1897. Fayette County Equal Rights Association, created in January 1888. Kentucky Equal Rights Association, formed...
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  • 13/RF channel 14) licensed to Dallas, Texas Kentucky Education Reform Act Kentucky Equal Rights Association Kera language, a language spoken in southwest...
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  • and facing the building. 1888 – Kentucky Leader newspaper begins publication. 1889 - The Kentucky Equal Rights Association meets at the Courthouse in Lexington...
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    Mary Barr Clay (category Suffragists from Kentucky)
    Woman Suffrage Association National Woman Suffrage Association Kentucky Equal Rights Association National American Woman Suffrage Association Woman of the...
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    Elise Bennett Smith (category Suffragists from Kentucky)
    Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1915 to 1916, and served as an Executive Committee member for the National American Woman Suffrage Association...
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  • The Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) was the first woman's suffrage association to be formed state-wide in Texas. The organization was founded in...
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    Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (category People from Franklin County, Kentucky)
    1902 Kentucky Derby. Breckinridge was grandniece of Dr. Ephraim McDowell. Her distant cousin, Laura Clay, founded the Kentucky Equal Rights Association in...
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    Emma Smith DeVoe (category National American Woman Suffrage Association activists)
    earliest stops in Kentucky, she brought much needed national support to the beleaguered members of the Madison County Equal Rights Association—one of the first...
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    Mary Jane Warfield Clay (category Suffragists from Kentucky)
    state suffrage association could be revitalized. Soon thereafter a group of activists formed the new Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA) on November...
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    Josephine Henry (category People from Versailles, Kentucky)
    and Henry founded the Kentucky Equal Rights Association to expand and revitalize the suffrage movement in Kentucky. The Association fought for Progressive...
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    Laura Clay (1849–1941) – co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of women's suffrage movement, active in the Democratic...
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    League of Indiana Kentucky - Kentucky Equal Rights Association Maine - Maine Women's Suffrage Association. Nevada - Nevada Equal Franchise Society. New Mexico...
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    during the Woman's Council at the Lexington Chautauqua. The Kentucky Equal Rights Association had organized ten days of activities focused on women's role...
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    Christine Bradley South (category Suffragists from Kentucky)
    (December 20, 1878 - February 20, 1957) was president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association for three years (1916–1919). She was a Vice-President of KERA...
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    women. This would, as Laura Clay stated in a debate with Kentucky Equal Rights Association president Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, raise the spectre...
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    Alice Barbee Castleman (category People from Louisville, Kentucky)
    suffrage movement. She was the first vice president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association in 1910, and 1911. Gen. Castleman supported his wife financially...
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    Mary Creegan Roark (category Western Kentucky University faculty)
    involved in the Suffrage Movement for Equal Rights and was elected Secretary of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association in 1898. Her stances included better...
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    Katherine Pettit (category Schoolteachers from Kentucky)
    National Historic Landmark. The publications officer for the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, Lida Calvert Obenchain reported to the state convention in...
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  • November 1915 the Phoenix Hotel was the meeting site for the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. After an automobile parade down Lexington's Main Street on...
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  • Clay, a delegate from Kentucky and co-founder of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and the Democratic Women's Club of Kentucky, became the first woman...
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    Women's suffrage in states of the United States (category History of voting rights in the United States)
    second-class cities in Kentucky were up for renewal and the Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA) lobbied successfully in the Kentucky Constitutional Convention...
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  • Intersex Association (ILGA). Originally called Kentucky Equal Rights, the organization changed its name to Kentucky Equality, with either "Association" or...
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  • provisions contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed that all citizens would have the guaranteed right to equal protection by law. As a whole...
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  • Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth...
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    Edwin P. Morrow (category Republican Party governors of Kentucky)
    making Kentucky the 23rd state to ratify it, and the moment is captured in a photograph with members of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. During...
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    1897, the Kentucky Equal Rights Association's ninth annual convention at Guild Hall, Trinity Church. The Kenton County Equal Rights Association, led by...
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    emphasizes social equality and equal opportunity. Democrats support voting rights and minority rights, including LGBT rights. Democratic president Lyndon...
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