Sacred Heart Parish

Historical marker location:

1000 Eliot St, Detroit, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of Rivard Street and Eliot Street, on the left when traveling north on Rivard Street.)

Marker installed: 1978

Michigan played an important role in the Women's Suffrage Movement. In 1918, Michigan became the first state in the Midwest to grant women the right to vote, two years before the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.