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In 1915, approximately 100,000 tin blue bird signs like this one were pinned up across the state of Massachusetts.


The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association organized “Suffrage Blue Bird Day" on July 17, 1915, to show support for a November referendum to grant Massachusetts women the right to vote. Despite the flock of birds, Massachusetts’s referendum failed—as did similar 1915 referendums in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. This wave of losses in 1915 pushed suffragists to reconsider their tactics; many redoubled their support for a federal amendment that would remove "sex" as a barrier to voting nationwide.


Women in Massachusetts and many other U.S. states did not gain the vote until after 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920. Even then, many other women nationwide—especially women of color and poor women—were still kept from polls through violence, intimidation, poll taxes, literacy tests, whites-only primaries, and laws barring their citizenship. Decades of organizing and legal challenges—at both the state and federal level—were needed to break down these final barriers to the ballot box.


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