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1866. December: Senator B. Gratz Brown of Missouri states publicly that he is for universal suffrage for anyone, regardless of "race, color, or sex." [1]Women petition the Missouri General Assembly to remove the word "male" from the description of a voter in the state constitution.
Paid organizers went to women's homes to help prepare them for voting. [77] The Missouri League of Women Voters (LWV Missouri) was created in October 1919 with Edna Gellhorn as the first president. [78] The Missouri Woman Suffrage Association met at the Statler Hotel in St. Louis where the group changed its name to the LWV. [79]
Prior to the enactment of the 19th Amendment, suffrage for women in the United States was left up to each of the individual states. In 15 of the states, women could vote in all state elections. [2] Missouri had ratified the amendment in 1919, but only to allow women to vote in a U.S. presidential election. [3]
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Missouri voting legislation, saying that voting was not an inherent right of citizenship, that the Constitution neither granted nor forbade voting rights for women, and that allowing only male citizens to vote was not an infringement of Minor's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. [13]
After all, the Catholic hierarchy in Missouri has used every opportunity to convince Catholics to vote otherwise — from requiring the reading of political messages at Sunday mass, to putting out ...
Voters in Missouri elected to overturn the state's near-total abortion ban with 51.6% of the vote. Missouri's Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative (Amendment 3) not only overturns the ban but ...
The lawsuit, filed in Cole County on behalf of the League of Women Voters and the Missouri NAACP, contends that the law chills the groups’ abilities to engage with voters and violates their ...
The Missouri League of Women Voters (LWV Missouri) is a nonpartisan organization to inform women voters in the American state of Missouri and encourage their participation in the political process. It was founded in 1919 as a successor to the Equal Suffrage League , a campaign for women's suffrage in the state, and appointed Edna Gellhorn as ...