LCCC speaker series focuses on National Women's History Month

Wyoming was the first territory and then the first state to allow women to vote, serve on a jury or allow a woman, Esther Hobart Morris, to serve in public office.

When Wyoming was being considered for statehood it almost did not get in because of the territory's stance on women. The territorial government had this response:

“We will remain out of the Union a hundred years, rather than come in without the women.”

In celebration of National Women's History month, the Laramie County Community College (LCCC) Eastern Laramie County Outreach Center will hold a speaker's series featuring loc...