A new podcast highlights the work of Margaret Salisbury and women in Utah, who raised funds for their state displays in the Woman’s Building and in the Utah Building of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The Zion’s Suffragists podcast from the Deseret News explores how Utah pioneered voting rights for women in the United States. Episode 3, “Woman will be restored,” features Salisbury, who served on the Board of Lady Managers as one of its vice-presidents and as a commissioner from Utah. Host Dianna Douglas describes how the women of Utah saw the 1893 World’s Fair as a chance to “flip the script” in the way the world viewed the Utah Territory, where polygamy had officially end only two years earlier and where women had earned the right to vote fifty years before most other women in America.
Listen to the podcast here.
