Next year marks the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in our nation, also known as the 19th amendment.
This year we are celebrating and honoring the women who led the way during the suffrage movement with historical markers. The third of five markers is at White Hall State Historic Site in honor of Mary Barr Clay, whose childhood home was there. Mary Barr Clay had a significant contribution to the women’s movement as she testified in 1884 to the House of Representatives on why women should have the right to vote. She was the President of the American Woman Suffrage Association and she also started the Madison County Suffrage Association, the first suffrage in Kentucky.
