page_title: Civil Rights in Utah
section_title: Voting
hierarchical_section_title: Civil Rights in Utah / Women's civil rights / Voting
caption_attribution_description: English: Utah State Capitol Building located in Salt Lake City, Utah
context_page_description: Civil rights in the state of Utah are part of United States constitutional law. Rights are granted to individuals are determined on the national level through the 13th and 14th Amendments in the United States Constitution and each state has the power to integrate and enforce laws about civil rights in different ways in their state constitution. Social and religious standards have impacted civil rights in Utah and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has been a major influence on legislature.
  Civil rights movements involving groups and minorities such as women, Hispanics, LGTBQ, and African-Americans have lobbied for laws to protect these groups' rights, allowing them access to equal wages, jobs, education, housing, and the ability to vote.
context_section_description: Women gained the national right to vote in 1920. In Utah women were granted the right to vote in 1870, two decades before statehood was achieved. Sarah Young, the niece of Brigham Young, was the first woman to legally vote in the United States, due to a municipal election held on February 14, 1869 (Wyoming had recognized women's right to vote earlier that year, but had not yet held an election and the LDS Church had given women the right to vote). In 1887 Congress passed the Edmunds–Tucker Act, which was designed to limit some of the practices of the LDS Church such as polygamy. This disenfranchised women voters, who regained the right to vote when the Act was later revoked. Utah was also the first state to have a female State Senator, Martha Hughes Cannon.
caption: Utah State Capitol Building located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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