America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor

After being forgotten for nearly 130 years, the "Mother of Suffrage in Missouri" and her husband are finally taking their rightful place in history.

St. Louisans Virginia and Francis Minor forever changed the direction of women's rights by taking the issue to the Supreme Court for the first and only time in 1875, a feat never eclipsed even by their better-known peers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Yet despite a myriad of accomplishments and gaining notoriety in their own time, ...