On this day, 100 years ago, the women of New York won the right to vote. This was three years before the 19th amendment was passed nation-wide.

But New York was far from leading the women's rights movement. Wyoming takes that title; in 1869, it became the first state to pass a women's suffrage bill, which also granted women the right to serve on juries and hold public office. Wyoming also had laws in place to give women property rights and guarantee women teachers the same pay as men. This put them ahead of most states in women's equality, but these were also strategic political choices: Wyoming's population skewed heavily male, and lawmakers hoped these laws would attract more women to the state.

Meanwhile in New York, women were organizing, but met several failed efforts to get a suffrage question on the ballot. There were several parades in support of women's suffrage, like in Brooklyn in November of 1913, when 4,000 suffragettes marched down Bedford Avenue. The New York Times has an account of an anti-women's suffrage protester who ended up tearing up his own sign and joining the marchers, apparently having a change of heart.

WNYC's Shumita Basu talks to Richard Hake about the eventual passage of women's suffrage in New York State in 1917.

Local events celebrating the centennial anniversary of New York women's suffrage:

• Congresswoman Grace Meng, Public Advocate Letitia James, and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will join Council Member Helen Rosenthal and the City Council Women’s Caucus at City Hall at 10am on Monday to commemorate the anniversary.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton's great-great granddaughter Coline Jenkins and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will preside over the launch of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument in Central Park’s Mall at 11:30 am on Monday.
• Women leaders in support of a Constitutional Convention in New York gather at City Hall at 11am on Monday to address "the systemic ways in which Albany continues to deprive women of their right to political power 100 years after women were granted the right to vote."
• The Department of Records and Information Services is holding a suffrage centennial celebration called "100 Years! Stay Tuned..." at 6pm on Monday.
• The Brooklyn Historical Society will host “Women’s Suffrage Turns 100: Reshaping Politics," at 6:30pm on Monday.
• The Brooklyn Historical Society will host “Women’s Suffrage Turns 100: The ‘Nasty Woman’ Stigma,” discussing the prevailing perceptions women have to face in politics and other fields, at 6:30pm on Wednesday.
• Women's Rights National Historical Park, which preserves the site of the first women's rights convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY, will celebrate Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 202nd Birthday on November 11th.
• The Museum of the City of New York has an exhibition called "Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics" on display until July 2018.