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Eminent Opinions on Woman Suffrage, San Francisco Call newspaper July 4, 1909 Historian Ronald Schaffer has noted the women's suffrage movement in California "is a story of slow building and initial defeat."
The first ballot measure to propose women's suffrage failed with only 44.6% support [6] [9] The founding of the Woman's Club of Palo Alto. [15] Lillian Harris Coffin; 1899: Black Baptist women created the first woman's club for black women in California, the Fanny Jackson Coppin Club [6] [16]
Women in the California gold rush, which began in Northern California in 1848, initially included Spanish descendants, or Californios, who already lived in California, Native American women, and rapidly arriving immigrant women from all over the world. At first, the numbers of immigrant women were scarce, but they contributed to their community ...
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in California.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
2. The day became Women's History Week in 1978. An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the ...
This is a list of notable California suffragists who were politically active before and during the successful Proposition 4 in 1911 which gave women won the right to vote. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
White Horse Inn (Oakland, California) Wild Side West; Woman's Club of Lincoln; Woman's Club of Lodi; Woman's Club of Redondo Beach; Woman's Improvement Club Clubhouse; Womanhouse; Women Eco Artists Dialog; Women in the California gold rush; Women in the early East L. A. punk scene; Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County; Women's Center for ...