Rivercomb Family
Latham Family
Anderson Family
Silvey Family
Hackley Family
Riley Family
Luttrell Family
Deatherage Family
Wigington Family (African-American)
Phillips Family (African-American)
Banks Family (African-American)
Jordan Family (African-American)
Williams Family (African-American)
Carter Family (African-American)
County and Local Newspapers ➔ 146 Rappahannock Women to Vote

Newspaper article

Identifier2018.1.426

DescriptionNewspaper listing of all 146 women who had paid the poll tax and were eligible to vote in Rappahannock County. 17 African-American women joined this brave assemblage. This clipping is probably from the 1920s, as women voting was considered newsworthy. Women received the right to vote in 1919, but the law was not ratified by the states until 1920. Virginia did not ratify the law until 1952, but women had been voting here since the 1920s.