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The women's suffrage movement began in California in the 19th century and was successful with the passage of Proposition 4 on October 10, 1911. [1] Many of the women and men involved in this movement remained politically active in the national suffrage movement with organizations such as the National American Women's Suffrage Association and ...
Under the leadership of Gail Laughlin, the California Women's Suffrage Association rebranded itself under a new name, the California Equal Suffrage Association (CESA). [19] 1906: Katherine Reed Ballentine founded the Yellow Ribbon, a statewide newspaper which covered the suffrage movement. [20]
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 .
Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944) – physician; California suffragist. [58] Lillian Harris Coffin [59] Dora K. Crittenden [27] Constance Dean [6] Mabel Deering [6] Maria de Lopez [60] Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933) – social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State Constitution. [61] Mary Fairbrother [54]
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
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Women's suffrage in South Carolina began as a movement in 1898, nearly 50 years after the women's suffrage movement began in Seneca Falls, New York. The state's women suffrage movement was concentrated amongst a small group of women, with little-to-no support from the state's legislature.