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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece dated October 1, 1911, Democratic State Senator J.B. Sanford, who was Chairman of the Democratic Caucus of California at the time, [12] called women’s suffrage a “disease,” a “political hysteria,” a “cruel and intolerable burden,” and a “backward step in the progress of civilization.” [13 ...
Solomons worked with many notable California suffragists including Maud Younger and Lillian Coffin Harris. [2] These women all worked together in September 1911 to form an election committee. [2] This committee would serve as a coalition of a variety of suffrage groups active throughout the state. [2] Women won the vote in California in 1911.
Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944) – physician; California suffragist. [58] Lillian Harris Coffin [59] Dora K. Crittenden [27] Constance Dean [6] Mabel Deering [6] Maria de Lopez [60] Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933) – social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State Constitution. [61] Mary Fairbrother [54]