August 24-30
Late 1908
The Washington Equal Suffrage Association published the Washington Women’s Cook Book. The book, comprising recipes donated by suffragists from around the state, was planned as a fundraiser for the group and to carry the woman suffrage message into Washington homes.
The Washington Women’s Cook Book would be sold during the 1909-1910 suffrage campaign, including at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, becoming part of Washington suffragists’ so-called “still hunt” strategy to win the support of male voters through the influence of their daughters, wives, and mothers.
August 26, 1920
On this day, the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants women the right to vote, became law.
Washington women had won the vote in 1910, after which Washington suffragists had helped with the national campaign to amend the constitution so that all American women could vote.
August 27, 1988
On this day, members of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians voted to approve a $162 million settlement in cash, real estate, and economic development programs in exchange for abandoning claims to some 18,000 acres of land on its historic reservation on Commencement Bay.
The agreement resolved questions over property titles and freed the Port of Tacoma to develop its land. It is the second-largest settlement between the government and Indians in American history.
August 28, 1969
On this day, the Central Contractors Association, led by electrician Tyree Scott, picketed county construction projects to protest the underemployment of blacks in the building industry. Later, three white assailants beat one of the picketers, Hank Roney.
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