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  2. Women's suffrage in Florida - Wikipedia

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    Women's suffrage car in a parade in Orlando, Florida in 1913. After Chamberlain left, women's suffrage mainly remained dormant in Florida until around 1912. [5] One exception was a petition to the United States Congress for a federal women's suffrage amendment that was circulated by John Schnarr of Orlando in 1907.

  3. Timeline of women's suffrage in Florida - Wikipedia

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    February 13: The Political Equality Club of Lake Helen is organized. [4] February 27: The Equal Suffrage Club of Orlando is formed. [5] March 3: Florida women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession. [6] April: Equal Franchise League of Jacksonville asks the Florida Legislature to pass a women's suffrage amendment for the state constitution. [7]

  4. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    The state also passes a statute that proclaimed women who had abortions could be given a prison sentence of three months to a year. It was one of the few states at the time to have laws punishing women for getting abortions. [8] Florida: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4] 1846

  5. Women's suffrage in states of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Women in Illinois helped the war effort during the Civil War. [132] Through her war work, Mary Livermore became convinced that women needed to vote so that they could enact political reform. [ 132 ] Livermore organized the first suffrage convention in the state, holding it in Chicago in 1869. [ 133 ]

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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    [321] United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had recommended to the U.N. Security Council earlier in 2013 (in September) that girls and women raped in war should have access to "services for safe termination of pregnancies resulting from rape, without discrimination and in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law ...

  7. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under the leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt, the National American Woman Suffrage Association aligns itself with the war effort in order to gain support for women's suffrage. [3] 1917: Arkansas grants women the right to vote in primary, but not general elections. [3] 1917: Rhode Island grants women presidential suffrage. [6]

  8. Lessons from Florida: DeSantis vilifies minorities. Imagine ...

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    So did Equality Florida, an LGBTQ civil-rights organization. As the group’s senior policy adviser, Carlos Guillermo Smith, told the Editorial Board, Florida has “rolled out the welcome mat for ...

  9. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    United States, Florida: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name. [13] 1846. Sweden: All Trade- and crafts works professions previously controlled by the guilds are opened to all women of legal majority through the Fabriks och Handtwerksordning and the Handelsordningen. [8] [31]