Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 1921, the Georgia General Assembly passed a law that would allow women to vote and hold public office. [77] White women voted statewide in 1922. [51] However, African-American and Native American women were still excluded from the vote in Georgia. [78]
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Georgia, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Georgia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, when it had seceded in the American Civil War .
In 1917, Waycross, Georgia allowed women to vote in primary elections and in 1919 Atlanta granted the same. Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment. Women in Georgia still had to wait to vote statewide after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920.
Take a closer look at how each county voted in this year’s presidential election, and how Georgia’s partisan margins are changing. Election day 2024 map: How all 159 Georgia counties voted ...
In presidential races, Georgia has given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate all but five times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ...
For more than 20 years, Georgia had been a reliably red state in presidential elections — until 2020, when Biden narrowly defeated Trump by just 11,779 votes, a margin of 0.24%, becoming the ...
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Women voted in school elections for the first time in 1895. [220] Harriet Taylor Upton became president of OWSA in 1899. [213] She also served as treasurer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [221] Upton began to organize women around Ohio and doubled participation of activists in the movement over the course of 1900 ...