Dakota Datebook: Beulah Amidon, ND suffragist Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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On this date in 1917, Beulah Amidon, daughter of Judge Amidon of Fargo, was making a name for herself as a suffragist as she traveled the United States. Beulah, 22 years old, was said to be a suffragist since childhood.

She had graduated from college in Fargo and then went to California, where she established legal residence so she could vote. Coincidentally, shortly after she moved, North Dakota passed limited suffrage for women. However, she would have to live in North Dakota for a full year again if she wanted to vote in her home state.

Still, the suffrage movement work took her all over the country. She was working on organizing a state conference of the National Woman’s Party in the south around this time, and had just finished campaigning for suffrage in North Carolina.

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