The dawn of women's suffrage in 1920 brought Michigan's first female legislators to the Capitol, including Grand Rapids suffrage leader Eva McCall Hamilton, and, in 1924, Cora Reynolds Anderson, a Native American educator and health activist from L'Anse. Bold advocates for women and children, Hamilton and Anderson were praised by some, and loathed by others, who saw them as distractions and interlopers in the male legislature. Learn about these trailblazing women and the rules - written and unspoken - that both limited and inspired their successes with Capitol Historian & Curator Valerie Marvin.

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