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Santa Cruz County History - Articles
Browsing Local History Articles tagged "suffrage"
Crusading Women: Santa Cruz was a Hotbed of Suffrage Fight, by
Ross Eric Gibson
Women were granted the right to vote 75 years ago under the 19th amendment, but the fight for that right ... [Read more]
Susan B. Anthony's Visit to Santa Cruz, by
Rechs Ann Pedersen
The announcement of Susan B. Anthony's upcoming speech appeared in the Sentinel on August 5, 1871. The following notice appeared ... [Read more]
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The City of Santa Cruz received its first charter from the State of California in 1876. The charter specified that the City would be governed an elected body consisting of a Mayor and a four-member Common Council.
The Mayoral Historical listing was revised [by the S.C. City Clerk's Office] in ..." [More]
Excerpted from Common Councils and Mayors, 1876--1906
