We tend to think that back in the day, Orange county women were steady homemakers and silent farmers' wives, but the turn of the 20th century affected them strongly with timely issues: like the vote for women.
As seen by this blurb in the Los Angeles Herald February 5, 1910, The Womens Parliament held its conference in Santa Ana, gathering attendees from all the southern counties.
Proposition 4 of 1911 (or Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 8) was an amendment of the Constituion of California that granted women the right to vote in the state for the first time. It was proposed by the California State Legislature and approved by voters in a referendum held as part of a special election on 10 October 1911. An earlier attempt to enfranchise women had been rejected in 1896, but in 1911 California became the sixth U. S. state to adopt the reform, but it would be another nine years before women's suffrage was recognized at the federal level by the 19th Amedement in the U. S. Constitution which prohibits both the federal government and all of the states from denying women the right to vote.
Women's suffrage has a long and honorable heritage in Orange county.
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