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The McCall Library at the University of South Alabama has the records of the local Mobile chapter of the League of Women Voters over the period of 1956 to 1987. [4] On May 23, 1955, twenty-four individuals met for the first meeting of the League of Woman Voters of Mobile at the Mobile Public Library, and the Chapter achieved provisional ...
Griffin spoke at the Alabama state constitutional convention in 1901. [6] Griffin spent a good deal of time in Montgomery, Alabama attempting to sway constitutional delegates on women's rights issues. [10] She was considered an excellent speaker and had a "trademark wit". [11] The convention considered several women's suffrage ordinances. [12]
[66] [67] She served two terms, until 2002, and wrote a book "The untold story of women of color in the League of Women Voters" documenting the history of the League and women of color. [ 51 ] The League fought for the 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act [ 68 ] and in the 1990s was important in the passage of National Voter Registration ...
Apr. 6—A coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit to block Alabama's recently enacted "Anti-Ballot Harvesting Bill" sponsored by Sen ...
Alabama’s congressional map dilutes the power of Black voters, voting rights advocates told the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a filing that accuses the state of “unabashedly” defying an ...
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alabama and its secretary of state on Friday, arguing that an effort to remove voters from state rolls was taking place too close to the Nov. 5 ...
Women state constitutional officers of Alabama (14 P) Pages in category "Women in Alabama politics" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Women's suffrage booth at the Alabama state fair in Birmingham in 1914. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama. Women's suffrage in Alabama starts in the late 1860s and grows over time in the 1890s. Much of the women's suffrage work stopped after 1901, only to pick up again in 1910.