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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization.Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and advocating for voting rights.
Below are notable members of the League of Women Voters. Juanita Jones Abernathy (1931–2019), member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Fulton County League of Women Voters; Sadie L. Adams (1872–1945), one of the first women to serve on an election board in Chicago and one of the founders of the Alpha Suffrage Club
The League of Women Voters of Tallahassee (LWVT), Leon County Office of Resource Stewardship, the Leon County Supervisor of Elections and Marpan Recycling are partnering to provide a "Campaign ...
That convention created the League of Women Voters as the NAWSA's successor on February 14, 1920, with Maud Wood Park, former head of the NAWSA's Congressional Committee, as its president. [132] [133] The League of Women Voters was formed to help women play a larger part in public affairs as they won the right to vote. It was meant to help ...
The national board of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to voting rights and democracy, disbanded the 70-year-old Park Ridge chapter recently despite the ...
The League of Women Voters of the Akron Area urges the Akron City Council to reconsider the new rules and to be more open and inclusive, not less. Democracy and Akron need more citizen engagement ...
Minnie Fisher Cunningham (March 19, 1882 – December 9, 1964) was an American suffrage politician, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, and worked for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution giving women the vote.
President Joe Biden 's campaign on Wednesday announced it is launching “Women for Biden-Harris,” a new nationwide program to organize and mobilize female voters to give him and Vice President ...