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Bessie Gilligan 1886 - 1980

Bessie Gilligan of Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA was born on July 3, 1886, and died at age 94 years old in July 1980.

Bessie Gilligan

Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA 18706

July 3, 1886

July 1980

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In 1886, in the year that Bessie Gilligan was born, on May 4th, a general strike began in Chicago. Workers were striking for an 8 hour workday and in protest of the killing - by police - of several workers the day before. When an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb, the strike became violent. Seven policemen were killed as well as 4 civilians. It became known as the Haymarket Riot and eventually resulted in an 8 hourwork day as well as commemorations on May 1st for worker's rights.

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In 1900, when she was only 14 years old, Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA was created by Anthony in 1890 in order to fight for the right of women to vote in the United States. Membership in NAWSA began at 7,000 and in the decades of the struggle - women didn't get the right to vote until 1920 - membership rose to 2 million.

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