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November 3: The 2nd Ohio women's suffrage amendment is rejected. [7] 1915. The Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (OWSA) invites NAWSA and the Congressional Union (CU) to set up offices in Ohio. [15] 1916. June 6: The Municipal Suffrage Amendment in East Cleveland passes with 426 votes, allowing women to vote in city elections. [42]
Let Ohio Women Vote postcard. Women's rights issues in Ohio were put into the public eye in the early 1850s. Women inspired by the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention created newspapers and then set up their own conventions, including the 1850 Ohio Women's Rights Convention which was the first women's right's convention outside of New York and the first ...
Dayton Woman's Suffrage Association (DWSA) is created around 1869. [5] Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association (FCWSA), formed in 1912. [6] [2] Hamilton County Suffrage Association. [7] Men's Equal Suffrage League, established in Cleveland in 1911. [8] Newbury Women's Suffrage Political Club. [9] Ohio Men's League for Equal Suffrage, created ...
The militant tactics of British and American suffragettes helped secure voting rights for women (in Britain, those rights were secured via Parliamentary acts passed in 1918 and 1928, and in the U ...
[331] [332] Wendy Rouse writes, "Scholars have already begun 'queering' the history of the suffrage movement by deconstructing the dominant narrative that has focused on the stories of elite, white, upper-class suffragists.” [331] Susan Ware says, "To speak of 'queering the suffrage movement' is to identify it as a space where women felt free ...
1861–1865: The American Civil War.Most suffragists focus on the war effort, and suffrage activity is minimal. [3]1866: The American Equal Rights Association, working for suffrage for both women and African Americans, is formed at the initiative of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The Ohio Women's Convention at Akron met for two days on May 28-29, 1851 in Akron, Ohio. [1] The convention was led by Frances Dana Barker Gage, who had previously presided over a similar event in McConnelsville. [1] The convention was not well received locally and several men, including local ministers, heckled speakers at it. [1]
The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press. Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission (1919). The Woman Citizen. Vol. 4 (Public domain ed.).