How women got the right to vote

October 6, 2011 at 11:26p.m.

SALEM

The Salem Historical Society will present “Women’s Suffrage: A Study of Persistence,” after its 7 p.m. business meeting Tuesday at the museum, 208 S. Broadway Ave.

Kim Kenney, curator of the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum in Canton, will present the program. Attendees will learn about the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., how the abolition movement sparked the fight for suffrage, and how the 19th Amendment came to be. Refreshments will be provided.