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The women's suffrage movement began in California in the 19th century and was successful with the passage of Proposition 4 on October 10, 1911. [1] Many of the women and men involved in this movement remained politically active in the national suffrage movement with organizations such as the National American Women's Suffrage Association and ...
Alice Park began her work as head of the literature committee of the CESA, carefully preserving many of the documents related to the suffrage movement in California. [21] In the 1930s she donated many of her papers to the Huntington Library in San Marino which houses a significant women's suffrage collection.
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Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
During the New York Constitutional Convention, held on June 4, 1867, Horace Greeley, the chairman of the committee on Suffrage and an ardent supporter of women's suffrage over the previous 20 years, betrayed the women's movement and submitted a report in favor of removal of property qualification for free black men, but against women's suffrage ...
An earlier attempt to enfranchise women had been rejected by California voters in 1896, [2] but in 1911 California became the sixth U.S. state to adopt the reform. [3] Nine years later in 1920, women's suffrage was constitutionally recognized at the federal level by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .
The California Equal Suffrage Association (CESA) was headquartered in northern California and was founded by suffragist Elizabeth Lowe Watson. [3] It was incorporated in 1904. [4] The original name of the organization was The California Woman's Suffrage Association.
The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention , the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme.