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In 1897, the Manchester Women's Suffrage committee had merged with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) but Emmeline Pankhurst, who was a member of the original Manchester committee, and her eldest daughter Christabel had become impatient with the ILP, and on 10 October 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst held a meeting at her home in ...
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [40] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement. [41] [42]
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]
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 listings were drawn from a database of women arrested at a White House protest, African-American women who had published writing on the topic of suffrage, names unearthed through original research during the course of the first biographical investigations, and 2,700 names drawn from volume six of The History of Woman Suffrage (1922). [5]
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
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.