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The artist Phyllis Garibai -on in White stands in front of an elevator support worker after revealing his mural in the State House, in honor of women who lead to decades of voice rights, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, in Topeka.

Topeka – Kansas has a new murals in its state, in honor of women who have been campaigning for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution, granting these rights across the country.

Governor Laura Kelly and other civil servants revealed the picture of the “rebels”, which covers an entire wall on the first floor on Wednesday, the anniversary of Kansas’s acceptance as the 34th country in the United States in 1861.

While Kansas Day is traditionally marked with shows on the official song of the state, “Home on the Range”, the event on Wednesday also included a anthem for the rights of women’s rights, “Song of Election”, in the tone of the “Battle of the Republic” S

The law of 2022 resolves the murals, and the artist Phyllis Garibai -on of Manhattan, in northeastern Kansas, won the competition with the depicting 13 prominent Kansas Srafgrants. Several women in the crowd of several hundred people were dressed as 19th -century campaigns who were active before statehood.

Kansas is proud of his entry into the Union as a free state against slavery, but was also more progressive than other countries in the gradual provision of women with full voting. Women could vote in the school elections in 1861 and the elections in the city in 1887, and the first woman of the country, Susanna M. Salter, was elected in Argonia, Kansas, the same year. Voters amended the State Constitution in 1912 to grant women with full voting rights.

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The artist Phylis Garibai-Konon, left, and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, to the right, stand under the newly opened mural of Garibai-Kon, in honor of women in Kansas, who have launched a voice rights campaign, January 29, 2025. at the State House in Topeka.

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The artist Phylis Garibai-Luna, from Manhattan, Kansas, touches his murals in honor of women in Kansas, who have been leading for decades for voting rights, two days before his official disclosure at Statehouse, Monday, January 27, 2025, in Topeka.

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Jeanne Klein, left, a retired professor at the University of Kansas, who examines the movement for women’s rights in Kansas, and Louise Emke, on the right, a member of the Kansas Sfgista Memorial Committee, monitors a ceremony before the opening of a new state home, worshiping the Srafgrants, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday January 29, 2025, in Topeka.






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