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| | Suffrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Women's suffrage was the goal of suffragists (commonly referred to as "Suffragettes"), who led a major Liberal and Democratic movement of the early 20th century, protesting vigorously for many years, demanding equality with men, and the right to vote. | | | Census suffrage or Householder Franchise is the opposite of Equal suffrage: the suffrage is limited, usually to the propertied classes, but can still be universal, i.e., including for instance women or blacks, granted they meet the census. | | | Equal suffrage is a term sometimes confused with Universal suffrage, although its meaning is the removal of graded votes, where a voter could possess a number of votes in accordance with income, wealth or social status. |
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| | Women's suffrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The last Western states to extend suffrage were Switzerland in 1971 and Liechtenstein in 1984. | | | In 1869 the Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women. | | | Women first achieved the right to stand for public office in South Australia in 1894, along with suffrage in that state. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Suffrage |
| | The U.S. Supreme Court in 1970 ruled that 18-year-old citizens have the right to vote in federal elections; the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1971, extended suffrage to 18-year-olds in all elections. | | | Prior to the 1970s, the age limit for voting in the majority of states was 21 (although Georgia, Kentucky, Alaska, and Hawaii had lower age limits). | | | In all states persons who have been convicted of felonies subsequently lose the right to vote. |
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| | Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 |
| | She asked to be allowed to organize a suffrage parade to be held in Washington at the time of the president's inauguration, thus ensuring maximum press attention. | | | Because this parade will be taken to indicate the importance of the suffrage movement by the press of the country and the thousands of spectators from all over the United States gathered in Washington for the Inauguration. | | | The Washington march came at a time when the suffrage movement badly needed an infusion of vigor, a new way to capture public and press interest. |
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| | Women's Suffrage |
| | Anthony retired from the presidency of NAWSA in 1900. | | | Women's Suffrage, the right of women to vote in political elections. |
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| | Timeline of Women's Suffrage in the United States |
| | Suffrage Amendment passes US House with exactly a two-thirds vote but loses by two votes in the Senate. | | | Suffrage amendment reaches the US Senate floor, it is defeated two to one. | | | Fourteenth amendment passes Congress, defining citizens as "male;" this is the first use of the word male in the Constitution. |
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| | TIMELINE 1910-1909 |
| | Suffrage plank for Ohio constitution is defeated at the polls. | | | Massive suffrage campaigns for constitutional amendments in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania are defeated; further dispiriting the movement. | | | Suffrage referendum finally passes in California by a slim 3,587 votes -- an average majority of one vote in every voting precinct in the state. |
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| | Research Starters: Suffrage |
| | Suffrage is the right to vote, and modern democracies, including the United States, extend that right to almost all responsible adult citizens, a condition known as universal suffrage. | | | By the time of the Civil War the principle of unrestricted white male suffrage was established, and it was mentioned in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. | | | American women did not win their struggle for suffrage until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, but unlike African Americans, they did not then have to continue the fight against state attempts to circumvent the law. |
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| | woman suffrage on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed in 1869 to agitate for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. | | | The movement in Great Britain began with Chartism, but it was not until 1851 that a resolution in favor of female suffrage was presented in the House of Lords by the earl of Carlyle. | | | New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -SUFFRAGE |
| | The colonies initially established suffrage requirements that resembled the rules of the boroughs, but by the early eighteenth century lawmakers came to emulate the spirit of the law of 1430. | | | Although suffrage had always been regulated by state constitutions and statutes and local ordinances, woman suffragists after the Civil War hoped for national enfranchisement alongside newly freed black men. | | | Black male suffrage became national in 1870 when the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited states from discriminating against potential voters because of race or previous condition of servitude (but not sex). |
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| | OnlineWomen: Suffrage |
| | The women's suffrage movement lasted at least 70 years, from the first formal women's convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, to the passage of the 19th amendment. | | | On 28 October 2000, a public demonstration was held in front of the National Assembly at the commencement of its fourth session, calling for the amendment of the Election Law to give women the right to vote. | | | In March 2000, the United Nations Human Rights Committee urged the Kuwaiti Government to “take all the necessary steps to ensure to women the right to vote and to be elected on equal footing with men, in accordance with articles 25 and 26 of the covenant. |
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| | WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage - Oregon |
| | National suffrage leaders called on her to serve as a vice president in the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1884. | | | She was first woman to register after suffrage amendment was adopted; with Multnomah County Clerk, John Coffey. | | | On November 30, 1912, Duniway signed Oregon's suffrage proclamation and became the first woman in her state to register to vote. |
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| | Equal Suffrage League of Virginia |
| | In 1893, she became president of the state's second suffrage association, the Virginia Suffrage Association. | | | The ESL led the movement in Virginia for women's suffrage for ten years and would become the Virginia League of Women Voters in 1920 after women won the right to vote. | | | At the 27 November meeting at the Crenshaw house, the constitution and by-laws were adopted and the officers and members of the board of directors were elected. |
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| | The Defense of Suffrage Act |
| | This Act may be cited as the 'Defense of Suffrage Act'. | | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, | | | How our society responds to the demands of women's groups to permit women to vote will determine whether the United States continues to make voters the basis of our government. |
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| | Woman Suffrage Campaing Scrapbook, Box 5 |
| | Upton, President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, requests from friends of Woman Suffrage 1) to check that each local election board appointed two men to be present to watch when the votes are counted, and 2) to be present at the polls on election day to hand out cards to the voters. | | | The Woman Suffrage Party is sending this letter to Montgomery County voters encouraging them to support the woman suffrage amendment on election day, Sept. 3rd. | | | Dayton Branch of the Ohio Association Opposed to Woman’s Suffrage. |
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| | Inez Milholland |
| | Inez Milholland was born in Brooklyn, New York on 6th August, 1886. | | | In 1913 Milholland led the women's suffrage demonstration in Washington on a white horse. | | | Wearing white robes, the photograph of Milholland during the parade became one of the most memorable images of the struggle for women's rights in America. |
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| | NAWSA Time line |
| | Aiding the suffrage cause is a last-minute decision by Tammany Hall, the powerful Democratic "machine," not to oppose suffrage, given the danger alienating potential women voters might pose in future elections. | | | The Nineteenth Amendment passes both House and Senate in a special session and goes to the states for ratification. | | | NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Catt unveils her "winning plan" for suffrage victory at a convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. |
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| | EDSITEment - Lesson Plan |
| | The 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women, was approved by Congress in 1920. | | | The next eight states to grant full suffrage to women were also Western states: Colorado (1893); Utah and Idaho (1896); Washington (1910); California (1911); and Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona (1912). | | | Margaret W. Campbell, of Massachusetts, a tried friend and worker in the Suffrage cause, who arrived in Colorado about the middle of November, 1875. |
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| | The Great Suffrage March of 1913 |
| | The Susan B. Anthony Amendment finally passed Congress in 1919, was ratified by 36 states in 14 months, and was declared law on August 26, 1920, a day known and celebrated thereafter as Equality Day. | | | Like the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech, the women’s march on Washington 50 years earlier captured the vibrant energy and passionate commitment of a democratic but controversial cause and helped propel it into the headlines and to the forefront of public attention. | | | Women could vote equally with men in 9 states, 5 of which had been won during the previous 3 years. |
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| | Female Suffrage |
| | The abuses inflicted on woman by legislation, the want of sufficient protection for her interests when confided to man, are generally asserted by the advocates of female suffrage as the chief motives for a change in the laws which withhold from her the power of voting. | | | The inalienable natural right of woman to vote; and imperatively so in a country where universal suffrage is a great political principle. | | | A criminal, an unnaturalized foreigner, a minor, have not that fitness; consequently the suffrage is withheld from them. |
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| | Institutions formed to promote Women's Suffrage: Women's History |
| | Carrie Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904, and from 1915 to 1920, when Amendment 19 to the United States Constitution was passed, giving women the right to vote. | | | Local and state leagues have worked for changes in city charters and state constitutions, court reforms, and improved services in education, health, and welfare. | | | Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C. Illustration for the 28th Annual Convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association |
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| | Woman Suffrage in Colorado, 1877-1893, Introduction |
| | Laying the foundation for Colorado’s suffrage success was a provision in the state’s 1876 constitution. | | | This broad range of strategies contrasted sharply with the limited methods of suffragists in 1877: lobbying and testifying before politicians and button-holding voters at the polls (see documents 1, 2, and 5). | | | Although they officially called themselves “non-partisan,” suffragists knew their constituency: voters and leaders in the Populist and Republican parties (see document 21). |
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| | Women's Suffrage Movement |
| | - Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote. | | | This website reminds us that although the movement to attain women’s rights officially began with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, women strove to attain equality long before that. | | | Ahead of their Time: A Brief History of Woman Suffrage in Illinois by M.W. Sorensen, |
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| | WOMAN SUFFRAGE |
| | Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and, by that right, he has forged chains about his limbs. | | | And where is the superior sense of justice that woman was to bring into the political field? | | | And all that without suffrage, without the right to make laws, without the "privilege" of becoming a judge, a jailer, or an executioner. |
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| | woman suffrage |
| | woman suffrage: In Great Britain - In Great Britain The movement in Great Britain began with Chartism, but it was not until 1851 that... | | | woman suffrage, the right of women to vote. | | | woman suffrage: In the United States - In the United States It was first seriously proposed in the United States at Seneca Falls, N.Y.,... |
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| | American Women's History: Suffrage |
| | Women's Suffrage Association and League of Women Voters [online]. | | | Yours for Liberty: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper. | | | National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1913-1920. |
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| | National Union of Suffrage Societies |
| | Mill added an amendment to the Reform Act that would give women the same political rights as men. | | | Three years later, when Becker died, Millicent Fawcett became the new leader of the organisation. | | | Although only a moderate public speaker, she was a superb organizer and soon became the leader of the London suffragists. |
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| | Suffrage: "...Not Idiots nor Imbeciles" |
| | Manitoba premier Roblin's response to a 1914 suffrage delegation is typical of what supporters heard: | | | Women everywhere had to put up with male politicians who felt that women were not ready for the vote, that women did not want the vote, and so on. | | | --Zoe Haight (Herstory 1987), in a speech to the Saskatchewan legislature while presenting the 1916 suffrage petition. |
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| | Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage |
| | As you members of the Thirty-ninth Congress decide, will the country be peaceful, united, and happy, or troubled, divided, and miserable. | | | Under the potent shield of State Rights, the game would be in their own hands. | | | Peace to the country has literally meant war to the loyal men of the South, white and black; and negro suffrage is the measure to arrest and put an end to that dreadful strife. |
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| | WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage |
| | Finally, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made full women's suffrage the law of the land in 1920. | | | The suffrage movement in the western United States dramatically expanded women's rights at home, at work, and in the community. | | | Victory in some campaigns came early whereas anti-suffrage forces in other states were exceedingly intractable. |
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| | Woman Suffrage - Manuel L. Quezon |
| | If you apply them to the amendment now before the committee, you will conclude that you should vote down the amendment even if you were in favor of woman suffrage for the United States. | | | Chairman, I am sincerely in hope that the amendment will be voted upon, not from the standpoint of the people of the United States, but in conformity with the preference of the Filipino women. | | | Chairman, it is evident from the statements made by the gentleman from Illinois that the main purpose of his amendment is to test the sentiment and conviction of this House on the issue of woman suffrage. |
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| | A History of the American Suffragist Movement, © The Moschovitis Group, Inc. |
| | A foreword by Geraldine Ferraro, who made history in 1984 when she was nominated as the first woman vice presidential candidate on a national ticket, links the story of the suffragists to the contemporary status of women's rights and the current political scene. | | | Written by acclaimed women's history expert Doris Weatherford, this landmark book chronicles the history of the women's suffrage movement, one of the most dramatic political battles fought in the United States. | | | The Moschovitis Group and publisher ABC-CLIO celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention--the beginning of the American women's rights movement--with the publication of A History of the American Suffragist Movement. |
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| | Woman's Suffrage |
| | are not arguing on the suffrage, allege that | | | admitted to the suffrage; and that her status | | | argument that the suffrage ought to be given |
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| | A Hotlist on Women's Suffrage |
| | Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures - From the Library of Congress, photographs of the women's suffrage movement from 1850-1920. | | | Votes for Women: Library of Congress Collection - Pictures, documents, and lots of info from the Library of Congress on the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1921. | | | How a bill becomes an amendment - A detailed description of how a bill becomes the law of the land. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Suffrage |
| | in Oman's most recent Majlis al-Shura elections in 2003, suffrage was universal for all Omanis over age 21 except for members of the military and security forces; the next Majlis al-Shura elections are scheduled for 2007 | | | This page was last updated on 10 January, 2006 | | | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Suffrage |
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| | Untitled Document |
| | This Image Gallery contains 50 separate images developed by suffrage supporters as a means of political communication in a pre-electronic age. | | | They were crucial in "selling" women’s right to vote to a wide audience. | | | Learn more about the woman’s suffrage movement and the significance of its colors, icons, and slogans on our In-Depth Tour. |
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