An extraordinary article ran OTD in 1917 in the Indianapolis News highlighting women from across the state who registered to vote for delegates to a convention to amend the Indiana state Constitution.

Photos of some of the women and interviews/reports with others highlight the women who registered. In Columbus, IN, two African American women were the first women to register and in some counties octogenarians made it to the front of the line.

The courts ruled that the proposed special election was unconstitutional and the women did not vote. However, they did vote in some local elections that summer until the state supreme court ruled the new partial suffrage law was unconstitutional.

More work needs to be done on Hoosier suffragists at the local level--maybe someone will follow the leads left for us from 1917?! @INSuffrage100 @IndianaHistory