February 11, 1868

An article appeared in the Arkansas Gazette stating that Miles Ledford Langley of Arkadelphia (Clark County) had introduced legislation in the Arkansas General Assembly providing that any citizen twenty-one years old who can read and write in English is entitled to vote and to have equal political rights and privileges. An address expressing that women needed the right to vote was delivered the following day to the Arkansas House of Representatives, and it was reported in the newspaper that he “spoke earnestly” but that his remarks “elicited much laughter.”