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It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [57] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. [58]
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
During the New York Constitutional Convention, held on June 4, 1867, Horace Greeley, the chairman of the committee on Suffrage and an ardent supporter of women's suffrage over the previous 20 years, betrayed the women's movement and submitted a report in favor of removal of property qualification for free black men, but against women's suffrage ...
The History of Woman Suffrage provides only limited coverage to groups and individuals who competed with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton for leadership of the women's suffrage movement. It only partially portrays the role of Lucy Stone , a pioneering women's rights advocate and a leader of the AWSA, a rival to the NWSA led by ...
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – giving women the right to vote in the United States, ratified in 1920. [13]Declaration of Sentiments – major statement for women's rights, including the right to vote, passed and signed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848; mainly written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The campaign for women's suffrage started in 1923, when the women's umbrella organization Tokyo Rengo Fujinkai was founded and created several sub groups to address different women's issues, one of whom, Fusen Kakutoku Domei (FKD), was to work for the introduction of women's suffrage and political rights. [151]
The anti-suffrage movement was a counter movement opposing the social movement of women's suffrage in various countries. [2] It could also be considered a counterpublic that espoused a democratic defense of the status quo for women and men in society.
1874: There is a referendum in Michigan on women's suffrage, but women's suffrage loses. [3] 1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3] 1878: A federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced for the first time by Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California.