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Describing women's suffrage as the cornerstone of the women's movement, it was later circulated as a women's rights tract. [65] Several of the women who played leading roles in the national conventions, especially Stone, Anthony and Stanton, were also leaders in establishing women's suffrage organizations after the Civil War. [66]
Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8] 1890: A suffrage campaign loses in South Dakota. [6] 1893: After a campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for women's suffrage. [6] 1894: Despite 600,000 signatures, a petition for women's suffrage is ignored in New York. [6]
The AWSA generally focused on a long-term effort of state campaigns to achieve women's suffrage on a state-by-state basis. [14] During the Reconstruction era, women's rights leaders advocated for inclusion of universal suffrage as a civil right in the Reconstruction Amendments (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments).
Women won the vote in California in a narrow election victory in October 1911. Here's who fought for and against women's suffrage.
An argument was that women paid taxes and should therefore also vote to decide what to do with them. Women's suffrage was approved with the votes 145 to 137. [214] However, this did not include women's right to be elected to political office, and the Women of Malta Association therefore continued the campaign to include also this right.
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. [15]
Mar. 31—Local professionals took part this week in a discussion at Northeastern State University about women's suffrage and how it has continued to affect American history. On Wednesday, March ...
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton . It was created after the women's rights movement split over the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution , which would in effect extend ...