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Library of Virginia inspires learning, ignites imagination, creates possibilities, encourages understanding, and engages Virginia's past to empower its future.
Dec 4, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
#ArchivesBakeOff Thread!

While researching materials regarding Virginia suffragists for this year's #19thAmendment anniversary, we came across this article in the Virginia Suffrage News about a Suffrage bake sale that took place in Richmond, VA. Now there's a lot of interesting information in this paragraph but one thing stood out. What in the world are "snakey-noodles"? A question that became even more intriguing when Google was no help.
Nov 2, 2020 • 16 tweets • 12 min read
A hundred years ago today, women gathered around the Commonwealth of Virginia to cast their first official votes.

uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2020/11/0… About 77K Virginia women voted for the first time on Nov. 2, 1920. A Martinsville woman spoke for countless others when she told her husband to "put on your collar and your coat" that morning because "this is a day of triumph and dignity." #Vote #ElectionDay #suffrage100