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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.
Ellen Sargent supervised a petition drive on behalf of women's suffrage in northern California and Alice Moore McComas oversaw the petitions in southern California. [7] The first ballot measure to propose women's suffrage failed with only 44.6% support [6] [9] The founding of the Woman's Club of Palo Alto. [15] Lillian Harris Coffin; 1899:
The California Museum is the state history museum of the US state of California, located in its capital city of Sacramento and housed within the Secretary of State building complex. It is home to the California Hall of Fame. Maria Shriver, former First Lady of California and founder of the California Hall of Fame.
An earlier attempt to enfranchise women had been rejected by California voters in 1896, [2] but in 1911 California became the sixth U.S. state to adopt the reform. [3] Nine years later in 1920, women's suffrage was constitutionally recognized at the federal level by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment prohibited ...
Here’s some good news for art aficionados and history buffs. More than 20 museums in the Sacramento area are offering free admission in early March.
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 ...
Sarah L. Knox-Goodrich (February 14, 1825 – October 30, 1903) was a women's rights activist who worked for women's suffrage in California in the late nineteenth century. . Her first husband, William Knox, was a business man, banker, and state politic
In California and in most states, the right to vote followed the granting of citizenship. A few states continued to deny suffrage, with Utah contesting Native American suffrage until as late as 1962.