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The 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted the franchise to women in 1920. But Oregon's women gained the right to vote eight years earlier. To commemorate that and other events, Portland State University students are offering walking tours during Women's History Month in March.

The purpose, says the news release, is to "focus on the women, men and organizations that worked to pass women's suffrage or those who opposede extending that right to women."

The 12 students leading the tour are enrolled in a PSU senior capstone course called "Monumental Women," and their mission is "to inspire and educate the public in order to keep women's civic contributions and personal stories from being forgotten."  
Work accomplished in that course becomes part of the educational kiosk at the Walk of the Heroines, the blocklong commemoration of women's achievements in Oregon, the nation and the world.  

Teaching the "Monumental Women" course is Janice Dilg, a Portland historian who studies women and labor in the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century. She is project director for the Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote 1912-2012.  

The students will lead two 90-minute tours on March 13 and again on March 15. The tours are free and open to the public, but registration by March 3 is required as space is limited.

-- Anne Saker, Twitter @dwtnPDXreporter