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Historian Ronald Schaffer has noted the women's suffrage movement in California "is a story of slow building and initial defeat." [2] Starting the 1860s, a small number of activists began mobilizing for women's suffrage in this western state.
The California legislature passed a bill extending suffrage to women. However, this was not a bill granting suffrage entirely to women; it was only for voting in school elections, not municipal elections. This bill was vetoed by Governor Henry Markham. [8] 1894: As a result of political pressure the California Republican Party endorsed women's ...
California Equal Suffrage Association [1] California Political Equality League [2] California Woman Suffrage Society; Congressional Union for Women Suffrage; Fannie Jackson Coppin Club [3] Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women. [4] National American Woman Suffrage Association; National Woman's Party [5] Political Equality Club of Alameda [6] Votes ...
In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece dated October 1, 1911, Democratic State Senator J.B. Sanford, who was Chairman of the Democratic Caucus of California at the time, [12] called women’s suffrage a “disease,” a “political hysteria,” a “cruel and intolerable burden,” and a “backward step in the progress of civilization.” [13 ...
The Women's Museum of California (WMC) is a nonprofit museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, dedicated to women's history.It was founded in 1983. [1] It was first organized under the names the Women's History Reclamation Project and then the Women's History Museum and Educational Center.
Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 43–59 [52–55]. ISBN 978-1609496753. April McDonald, "Maud Younger 1870–1936: A California Woman as Labor Reformer, Suffragist, and Activist," masters' thesis (California State University 1994). Maud Younger in the National Women's History Museum
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [26] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [27] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913
In 1870 the California State Woman Suffrage Society or California Woman Suffrage Association was founded by Laura de Force Gordon. [1] The California Woman Suffrage Association changed its name from California Woman Suffrage Association to California Equal Suffrage Association in 1896 to appeal to male sympathisers. [2]