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Black women in California had been working for suffrage as far back as the 1890s. [21] The Fannie Jackson Coppin Club was an important club for African American women in Alameda County who were active in the suffrage movement. Lydia Flood Jackson and Hettie B. Tilghman were among the leaders of this organization. [22]
Under the leadership of Gail Laughlin, the California Women's Suffrage Association rebranded itself under a new name, the California Equal Suffrage Association (CESA). [19] 1906: Katherine Reed Ballentine founded the Yellow Ribbon, a statewide newspaper which covered the suffrage movement. [20]
California Equal Suffrage Association [1] California Political Equality League [2] California Woman Suffrage Society; Congressional Union for Women Suffrage; Fannie Jackson Coppin Club [3] Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women. [4] National American Woman Suffrage Association; National Woman's Party [5] Political Equality Club of Alameda [6] Votes ...
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. This amendment prohibited ...
Laura de Force Gordon (née Laura de Force; August 17, 1838 – April 5, 1907) was a California lawyer, newspaper publisher, and a prominent suffragette.She was the first woman to run a daily newspaper in the United States (the Stockton Daily Leader, 1874), and the second female lawyer admitted to practice in California.
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 ...
In October 1907, Mary Sperry gave an address at the California Equal Suffrage Association's annual conference in Oakland; she explained that the suffrage movement was a "progressive movement, and must go on to equality". [13] On October 3, 1908, Sperry was unanimously re-elected as the organization's president for a seventh year in a row. [14]
There was hope that California could be a shining example of how to implement reparations. Its end, however, didn’t shock opinion columnist LeBron Hill. California’s reparation movement was ...