Kentucky Suffragists
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Suffragist Laura Clay attended Sayre Female Institute. This photograph shows Laura Clay and a group marching for the Madison, Fayette, and Franklin County branches of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, at Democratic National Convention in St. Louis. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.
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Sayre Female Institute
Historical Marker #2197 in Lexington commemorates the Sayre Female Institute which is now the Sayre School. The school was founded in 1854 by David Austin Sayre for the education of young women. Sayre believed that women deserved an "education…