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Zelophehad’s Daughters

On October 29, 1908, about 100 women paraded through the mining town of Boone, Iowa. Joining the first women’s suffrage march in that state was Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Shaw was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). One parade banner read: “Like the Daughters of Zelophehad We Ask For Our Inheritance.”

Like whom?

As an ordained minister,

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