| 单词 | suffrage |
| 例句 | Woodhull’s successful speech before Congress, coupled with her pledge of $10,000 to the organization, made Woodhull welcome among the suffrage leaders—most of them, anyway. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The women’s suffrage advocates were on their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They were no longer suffrage sisters; Stone and Anthony were outright rivals. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In Wyoming, a group of the wives of elected officials had worked behind the scenes to convince their husbands to support female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When Stanton shared the Declaration of Sentiments with her husband, Henry, he told her that demanding suffrage would make the entire convention a “farce.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They were especially powerful in the South, where many people didn’t support female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Before Alice Paul and the pickets came, days would pass when the word suffrage didn’t appear in the dispatches,” a journalist wrote in the New York Sun. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She didn’t think she would win, but she did think she could use the election as a way to start a conversation about topics she considered important, including female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When Stanton asked Lucretia Mott to sign the petition for female suffrage, she refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1869, the women’s suffrage movement experienced its first victory: The territory of Wyoming became the first US jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z By the time Woodhull’s name disappeared from newspaper accounts and gossipy conversations, she was widely criticized for having set back the suffrage movement by at least twenty years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The movement was dividing into two groups—one that made voting rights for black men the priority and another that demanded that female suffrage also be considered—and this disagreement changed the relationships among advocates. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She also may have felt ambivalent about the suffrage issue because she was a Quaker; many Quakers refused to vote because they did not want to participate in a government that waged war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Since the 1913 procession, they had tried lobbying, meeting with President Wilson, and holding additional parades, but nothing seemed to generate political support for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She presented a thoughtful and coherent lecture about suffrage, unaware that the question was intended to test her sanity. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Other women’s rights leaders, including Lucy Stone, advocated for the passage of a separate amendment that would ensure female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After twenty years of working separately, the younger members of both groups began to see the wisdom of joining ranks and working on suffrage together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “National woman’s suffrage is at hand,” a committee report stated. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “I cannot...sing suffrage anymore; I am deeply interested in all the questions of the day.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Susan B. Anthony was pleased that the goal included female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z So instead of talking about putting on a “parade,” she began to talk about a suffrage “procession.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention ended, the women’s suffrage movement had officially begun. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was a logical next step for them to realize that they could support suffrage as a means of realizing their temperance goals. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As a child she learned about social justice and even attended suffrage meetings with her mother. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In her remarks, Dahlgren argued that women had distinct duties in the home and that suffrage would threaten their special status. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Churches and gathering places refused to rent their halls to suffrage organizations. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She stuck to the argument that in a democracy, women must have the right to vote, noting that female suffrage “serves the highest interest of the country.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She argued that women—black and white, Southern and Northern—needed suffrage and all the rights and protections of citizenship. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton and Anthony wrote articles and letters, held meetings, and circulated petitions demanding that Congress “extend the right of suffrage to woman.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton decided to pull away from the suffrage movement for a time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The group collected petitions, recruited additional supporters and volunteers, raised funds, and started a weekly newspaper, the Suffragist, which kept readers up to date on the status of the federal suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Women in Kansas already had the right to vote in school elections, and many women’s rights leaders thought that there was a real possibility that full suffrage could be won there. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1913, though women had not yet achieved the right to vote in federal elections, Illinois extended local suffrage to women. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The National Woman Suffrage Association was dedicated to opposing the Fifteenth Amendment, promoting a sixteenth amendment establishing female suffrage, supporting divorce reform, and advocating for other women’s rights issues. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The conservatives in the organization did not want the temperance group to have any link to suffrage, women’s rights, or the divorce issue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The morning after the two-day American Equal Rights Association meeting adjourned, Stanton and Anthony called friends of women’s suffrage to a follow-up meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Once the fighting began, most of the women who had been active in the suffrage movement suspended that work and focused their energy on the war effort. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton and Anthony stood fast as the battleground for suffrage shifted to the West. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After seeing women omitted from history in the centennial celebrations, the suffragists decided to write their own account of the women’s suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, by the end of 1871 fourteen out of fifteen state suffrage groups had left the National and joined the American Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In the middle of the nineteenth century, most Americans considered female suffrage a ludicrous idea, a radical position first suggested by a radical woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She was growing weary of Anthony’s single-mindedness about suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Women’s suffrage—which had seemed like a radical idea when it was first proposed seventy-two years earlier in central New York—had finally become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She and her political supporters went to the states where women had won the right to vote, and they campaigned against Democrats—Democrats, even those who supported suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They wanted suffrage and they wanted it now. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z On January 9, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to Congress offering his support for women’s suffrage, describing it as a war measure. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stone wrote to friends back east with stories of a woman who “carried petitions all through the town for female suffrage, and not one woman refused to sign.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Her mailbox filled with letters from suffrage sympathizers who objected to picketing during the war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Much as I desire the suffrage,” she wrote, “I would rather never vote than to see the policy of our government at the mercy of the religious bigotry of such women.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Actually, the march would not be the first suffrage parade. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z All had passed the legislation without significant involvement of the national suffrage leaders. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Congressional Union also started “suffrage schools” to educate women about the issue and, according to Paul, they conducted “an uninterrupted series of indoor and outdoor meetings, numbering frequently from five to ten a day.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z This illustration from the New York Evening Journal shows the intended organization of the marchers in the 1913 suffrage parade. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Even newspapers that opposed female suffrage condemned the way Judge Hunt handled the case. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Not a man in town thought it mattered a hoot about women voting, and only two ladies went to the first women’s suffrage meeting Miss Love set up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They were followed by a wagon carrying twenty thousand suffrage leaflets, which they shared with interested people along the way, taking every chance to discuss the issue of voting rights for women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Many reformers took up this cause before they took on other social issues, such as abolition and suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Woodhull’s relationship with Butler breathed new life into the women’s suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Selden supported female suffrage and never charged Anthony for the time he spent working on her case. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At last, Congress was at least considering the suffrage question. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She gave us lectures on women’s suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Whether the ranks of antis were exaggerated or not, it was clear that the time had not yet come for suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton and Anthony organized a petition drive in New York in support of female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z With six full suffrage states and two million female voters, there already existed a readymade voting bloc with the potential to influence state and national elections. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Tennessee Senate had passed the suffrage measure five days before. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At 8 a.m., he signed a proclamation adding the women’s suffrage amendment to the US Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They were fearful that if she voted her conscience she would make women appear weak, which could compromise the suffrage campaign. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The African American woman in question was Ida Wells-Barnett, who planned to come from Chicago to Washington, DC, to march side by side with her suffrage sisters from Illinois. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The national leadership noticed Paul’s eloquence and devotion to suffrage, and after her lecture she was asked to serve on their board. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “If you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage....,” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In other words, almost all of the women who voted supported suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But of those who did vote, 96 percent supported suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Paul believed that the persecution of nonviolent protesters would help the cause of suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Some women in the suffrage movement felt compelled to choose between the National and the American; others joined both organizations. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In one story of this contest between the two deities, woman’s suffrage plays a part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Both women agreed with the motto of the British suffrage movement: “Deeds, Not Words.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She wanted the world to know that she was willing to give her life for suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In June, Wilson wrote to Catt and told her that he would encourage the Democratic Party to include a suffrage endorsement in its platform. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When she once appeared before a group of reporters wearing a white shawl, some of the journalists joked that they would not write about suffrage unless she brought back the red wrap. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The details of preparing for the suffrage parade were daunting, even the simplest ones. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anthony’s Quaker upbringing also had discouraged interest in partisan politics and women’s suffrage, so she focused on working with the temperance movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In short, there would be a multiparty democracy based on universal adult suffrage on a common voters’ roll. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks after the event, she and a group of suffragists met with President Wilson to ask if he would support suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Both women stayed at the elegant Hermitage Hotel, which became ground zero in the suffrage fight. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The largest suffrage parade took place in New York City in November 1912, when some twenty thousand women participated. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He did, however, send word to Catt, who shared his words on behalf of suffrage at a celebratory party that night. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She asked him what he would think if editorials supported suffrage for uneducated immigrants while he was asked to wait patiently. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The National American Woman Suffrage Association decided to stand with President Woodrow Wilson and back the war effort, hoping that their cooperation would earn Wilson’s support of suffrage after the war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Tell me about suffrage; why you have opposed the president; the whole history of your campaign; why you picket; what you hope to accomplish by it.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Senate voted on the suffrage amendment on February 10, and it failed to pass again, but this time by only a single vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That fall, she attended her first women’s rights convention, finally embracing the central importance of suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z From that point forward, liquor lobbyists worked to defeat female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Inspired by Harriot Stanton Blatch, Paul wanted to use pageants and parades to rekindle interest in a federal amendment for women’s suffrage, as well as to influence members of Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The scene in the Tennessee State Capitol as the clerk tallied the votes on the suffrage question. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Her tactics seemed to help: That year the Senate held the first vote on women’s suffrage since 1887. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z During her time in England, Alice Paul had learned the British suffragists’ political approach to their cause, which involved holding the party in power responsible for not passing the suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She had faith that this assertive but peaceful protest would help women win the federal suffrage amendment in the shortest time possible. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She made a point to meet Representative Benjamin Butler, an influential Republican congressman from Massachusetts, who hoped to lead his party to victory in the elections based on the expansion of women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She further offended other suffragists by advocating for “educated suffrage, irrespective of color or sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She supported suffrage as a means of improving the working conditions of children and African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The suffrage movement, while having made great progress at the state level, badly needed a dramatic happening at the national level if it was to succeed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the days that followed, newspaper reporters covered the suffrage debate. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z What no one but Burn knew at the time was that he had a letter in his pocket from his mother, Febb Burn, a suffrage advocate. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anthony begrudgingly accepted that the work of the suffrage movement was suspended, at least for the duration of the Civil War. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Blatch said, “The suffrage movement...bored its adherents and repelled its opponents.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The way Anthony saw things, each time one of their leaders married, it created one more obstacle, one more distraction that would interfere with the progress of suffrage and women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They crisscrossed the country for eight or nine months of the year, speaking about suffrage, as well as other feminist topics. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton had assumed that the American Equal Rights Association would be dedicated to winning universal suffrage—voting rights for all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Senate in 1914, he was absent for the debates on women’s suffrage and Prohibition—two of the biggest political issues of his time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Despite the suffragists’ steadfast effort, only a handful of states had even considered the suffrage issue on a state ballot. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The anti-Woodhull backlash also led to the formation of organizations dedicated to fighting female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Until attitudes changed, suffragists were going to have to work for the passage of suffrage legislation one state at a time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Of all of these injustices, Elizabeth considered suffrage, the right to vote, most important. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In fact, there was a single link that unified the suffrage movement’s past and present. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z While some suffragists chose to support Wilson and hoped he would support suffrage in return, Paul planned to send a message by working against his reelection. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She refused to sign the letter and encouraged Stanton not to “complicate or compromise” their efforts to win suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But progress on the issue of women’s suffrage on a national scale was moving at a painfully slow pace. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In addition to suffrage, Victoria Woodhull's political platform called for labor reform, nationalizing railroads, prison reform, and rewriting the tax code. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A dozen Kansas women organized a women’s rights society to advocate for full female suffrage, and Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell went to Kansas to work on the campaign. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The society was reorganized under a new name—the American Equal Rights Association—with a goal of universal suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z While the women shared an interest in abolition, Anthony did not have much interest in women’s rights or suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They wanted women to understand the importance of suffrage, convinced that they would then support the campaign. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anthony worried that Stanton’s book would divide the coalition of women working for suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Many of them were in Washington, DC, to attend a convention of the National Woman’s Party, but they wanted to show their support for suffrage by marching with the picketers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The only resolution that did not pass so easily was the suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The amendment established that basic rights of citizenship—including suffrage—would be granted to male former slaves, and by specifying the sex it explicitly denied those rights to women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z From that point forward, there was a great divide between Stanton, Anthony, and others who backed educated suffrage, and those who supported working for African American suffrage first and female suffrage afterward. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Of course, the antis—those who opposed women’s suffrage—were gearing up for a fight, too. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Crowds overwhelmed the streetcars on the morning of the suffrage procession, March 3, 1913. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The membership voted against supporting the principle of educated suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The opponents of suffrage in Tennessee challenged the vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “My wife has presented me with eight beautiful children; is not this a better lifework than that of exercising the right of suffrage?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In other words, voters could grant suffrage to African American men, to white women, to neither group, or to both groups, which would include African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The leadership saw Wilson as sympathetic to suffrage, even if he wasn’t ready to move on the issue quite yet. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The other women carried plain cloth panels showing the colors of the American women’s suffrage movement: purple, white, and gold. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1878, the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections invited both the suffragists and the anti-suffragists to present their views on a national suffrage amendment before Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Tennessee’s governor, Albert H. Roberts, was up for reelection, and he knew that supporting suffrage would cost him votes in a tight election. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anthony remained devoted to her friend and encouraged her to remain engaged with the temperance and suffrage movements. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The National objected to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and favored educated female suffrage; the American supported female suffrage and did not oppose voting rights for any African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Her words became a rallying call for the suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As the twentieth century approached, Stanton and Anthony realized that they would not live long enough to see nationwide suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Legislators who were sympathetic to the cause told women that in the “current free-love storm,” it would be best to table women’s suffrage legislation, at least for the time being. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Now that they had the attention and the sympathy of the nation, the suffrage movement couldn’t afford to lose any momentum. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z When she got home, Stanton started work on the second volume of History of Woman Suffrage, which covered the period of the division of the women’s suffrage movement in 1869. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They didn’t oppose female suffrage, but it wasn’t their first priority, and they didn’t want to press for universal suffrage if it would make black suffrage less likely. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z George Francis Train was a wealthy eccentric who was an outspoken advocate for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Men could weigh in on the issue, too, and they were less supportive: Almost 70 percent of the men who voted opposed female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The suffrage movement was entering a phase that many historians refer to as “the doldrums.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z However, President Wilson knew that if the bill did not pass early in the next session, the suffrage protests would start up again. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Speaker of the House opposed suffrage, but he had promised to be fair to the suffragists. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Catt believed that her plan would result in full female suffrage in less than six years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Suddenly, suffrage was a young person’s fight, not a battle once fought by her mother and her mother’s friends. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Thirteen suffragists or pilgrims walked 250 miles, from New York to Washington, DC, to join the March 3 suffrage procession. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Looking around, I noticed a small poster tacked on the wall, advertising a women’s suffrage speech in Baltimore in 1888. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Even though Wilson had spoken out in favor of suffrage, the National Woman’s Party continued to hold him, as the nation’s leader, responsible for the failure of the measure. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Finally, in October 1916, Wilson came out and declared his official support for female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But some women continued to oppose their own suffrage, arguing that having the vote would threaten women’s role in society and in the home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z While at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, she heard a speech by Christabel Pankhurst, the British suffragette, and she was invited to participate in suffrage protests, but she didn’t jump into radical politics easily. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It also claimed that suffrage would be harmful to children, because it would increase the likelihood of “discord” in marriages, increasing the “already alarming” rate of divorce in the country. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Burn was running for reelection in the fall, and most of his constituents were opposed to female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Women resigned from suffrage organizations, and prospective recruits refused to join. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They believed that if they stalled until after the November elections, the suffrage “fad” would probably lose steam. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She became a law clerk, a teacher, and the superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa, before devoting her career to suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She also said it was “hurting our cause,” because one congressman had said that he wouldn’t vote for suffrage as long as the women picketed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z However, Anthony worried that the race issue would interfere with the suffrage agenda. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Neither side spoke of the interests of the doubly disenfranchised bloc of black women, who could have become advocates of universal suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anthony was eager to steer the suffrage movement back to what she considered its more respectable roots. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After the convention, the leadership presented this declaration, plus a petition with eight thousand signatures supporting women’s suffrage, to the Ohio lawmakers revising the state’s constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The newly reenergized suffrage movement finally started having some success after a long period of stagnation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z On May 21, 1919, the new House passed the suffrage amendment by a vote of 304 to 89, more than the required two-thirds. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z With a fifth child in the house, Stanton had little time for suffrage work, or anything else but changing diapers and managing the household. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She proselytized about suffrage to anyone who would listen and recruited volunteers to help with the work. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The following morning, more than 650 Woodhull supporters—including several dozen women who defected from Anthony’s suffrage convention—showed up at Apollo Hall. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Across the country, suffrage opponents successfully—if unfairly—linked women’s rights with lax morals and sexual scandal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It called on reforms in education, employment, property rights, religion, and, most notably, suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z To prove her point that she considered the trial a miscarriage of justice, Anthony had three thousand copies of the court transcript printed and distributed across the country to politicians, libraries, and suffrage groups. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She believed that the issue of female suffrage would not be settled until a woman was arrested for voting and a test case was brought before the courts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She had appeared before that group and spoken on behalf of female suffrage for decades. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When Stone founded a separate suffrage group, Anthony considered it another betrayal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Every outward sign had indicated that Burn would vote against suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The energy had largely drained from the movement, and most women didn’t talk much about suffrage, pro or con. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z This poster celebrates suffrage and the League of Women Voters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Still, the antis claimed that all of those who failed to vote opposed female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After that, Anthony tried to distance herself from the WCTU, and she remained devoted to the cause of suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The problem came to a head in California in 1896 when voters there were considering a suffrage amendment to the state constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The most important outcome of these hearings was the introduction of Victoria Woodhull as one of the new voices of the women’s suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z President Woodrow Wilson kept trying to dodge the suffrage question. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Some of the president’s advisors even recommended that he approve suffrage as a war measure so that the protests would stop. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Anthony organized events and sold pamphlets about suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z While Elizabeth Cady Stanton was overseas, Susan B. Anthony continued to be singularly devoted to the cause of female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z African American leader Booker T. Washington shared this view, opposing suffrage on the grounds that giving women the vote would undermine their moral and domestic influence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She spoke out in favor of women’s suffrage, saying, “The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When Stanton shared the first draft of the document with the other women, even Mott balked at the suffrage resolution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1910, Washington became the first state to pass suffrage legislation in fourteen years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After eighteen hours of discussion and debate over a two-day period, the suffrage resolution passed by a narrow margin. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z By the close of the nineteenth century, however, the biggest enemy of suffrage was not the antis but indifference. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The list of signers included Charlotte Woodward, the only person at that meeting who would live long enough to see female suffrage become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was not long before some opponents of female suffrage deliberately used Victoria Woodhull’s other prominent positions to divert public attention from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z While Susan B. Anthony’s case never made it to the US Supreme Court, another case involving female suffrage and the Fourteenth Amendment did. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z June 4: The US Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to all the states for ratification. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Lining up for the opening of the suffrage procession in Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The deaths of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony marked the end of the first wave of the American women’s suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z No other reformer had logged as many miles on behalf of suffrage—or any other cause. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The president was again in France for a peace conference, but he took time out to cable a message to the new Congress encouraging support of the suffrage amendment, among other measures. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton had joined the temperance organization out of her allegiance to Anthony; her heart belonged to the suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Catt had remained dedicated to traditional lobbying—privately meeting with legislators and the president to persuade them to support suffrage—whereas Paul’s campaign had been designed to humiliate the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She argued that the strategy would send a strong message and that it would motivate more politicians to take a stand on the suffrage issue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Politicians who had opposed suffrage in North Carolina urged members of Tennessee’s House of Representatives to fight suffrage “to the last ditch, and then some.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Some considered the federal amendment a challenge to states’ rights to make their own choices and laws, and others worried that expanding African American suffrage to include women could threaten white political control. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z No one in the suffrage movement knew Woodhull well before she spoke, but she immediately became the woman to watch. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z On November 27, most of the suffrage protesters, including Paul, were suddenly released from their cells. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He said it was up to the states to decide whether to allow female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In June 1916, she founded the National Woman’s Party, yet another group dedicated to only one issue, female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “As for the suffrage movement,” a young college graduate noted, “it is actually fashionable now.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton delivered a stirring speech about the “sacred right” of women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She didn’t want politicians to voice lukewarm support for suffrage; she wanted them to work for change until it was accomplished. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Woodrow Wilson arrived by train at Union Station on the day of the suffrage procession. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Lucy Stone did not attend the meeting, and she objected to excluding men from the organization, arguing that her husband had worked as hard as anyone else for women’s suffrage in Kansas. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Women had been working for the right to vote since Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a group of reformers first called for female suffrage in 1848. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Also in 1870, Victoria Woodhull moved to Washington, DC, and began working as a lobbyist for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In a movement known as the New Departure, some women’s rights advocates interpreted the new amendment in a way that actually allowed female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In states that already had female suffrage, the emphasis would be on support for a federal amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Wilson, Princeton's president at the time, is worn down by health problems and paranoia over university politics and his own prejudices against African Americans and women's suffrage. Joyce Carol Oates takes on Ivy League society in new novel 2013-03-08T23:42:08Z He said that he wanted to evoke issues of turn-of-the-century America, including women’s suffrage and child labor, while retaining “the passion of the boys.” Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z End notes include short biographies of Bessie and Susan B. Anthony, as well as a brief overview of suffrage history. Local Books: Victory in Ethiopia, a faerie ring 2011-11-14T21:48:04Z Anthony was a leader of the campaign for women’s suffrage, writing the text of what became the 19th Amendment when it was passed in 1920, giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony photo, found in attic, now going to auction 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z “The suffrage exhibit examines all the ways people used their First Amendment rights, exercised their First Amendment muscles in the fight for the vote,” Christoffersen said. The Newseum still exists. One of its next exhibits is in a hotel suite. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Watching Mrs. Banks, played by the incomparable Glynis Johns, parade through the movie’s London townhouse singing about women’s suffrage was a reminder to American audiences that there was still a long way to go. Mary Poppins Was the Original Disney Feminist 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Built around 1850, this historic home was once occupied by the Blackwell family, pioneers in the abolition, women’s suffrage, and prohibition movements. Estates of the Week - August 15, 2014 2014-04-08T04:00:00Z “Let’s be an inclusive community and consider voices different from our own,” Bennett wrote in a post on Jan. 6 that tied quilting to movements to end slavery, promote suffrage and eradicate AIDS. Now, even quilters are angry: How a social-justice design started a feud 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z “It was the beginning of universal suffrage and the end of the Empire.” Edinburgh International Festival Embraces Youth at 71 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Gavron portrays the suffrage crusade as a working-class movement, one whose members are bludgeoned with societal contempt and police blackjacks. Review: An Uneven Vote in Suffragette 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z We went through the women’s suffrage movement, where women were beaten and jailed and assaulted, but we came out with the women’s right to vote. Olympics activist: ‘Athletes have always been in the forefront saying: We, the people, are better than this’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z First-wave feminists focused on the burning issue of their day — suffrage. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z And while “On Air” broadens its canvas with references to such events as Prohibition and the women’s suffrage movement, one longs for more reflection on the philosophical and civic implications of a medium like radio. Review | ‘On Air’ at Creative Cauldron is a tuneful, engaging tour through little-known history 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Levine puts a lot of weight on the fact that in 1865, Johnson had privately expressed a plan for limited Black suffrage. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The show opens Feb. 27 at the Claire Tow Theater and traces a couple at the center of the suffrage movement over 40 years. New Sarah Ruhl Play to Premiere at Lincoln Center 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Black genius and black suffering inspired Mary Church Terrell, as she crisscrossed the country, standing before crowds to decry lynching and demand women’s suffrage. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Consider the words of the neurologist Charles L. Dana, who in the early 1900s opposed women’s suffrage partly because of the structural differences between male and female brains and bodies. Ambition + Desire = Trouble 2011-06-17T19:55:20Z He was an early advocate of feminism and women's suffrage, perhaps because of the influence of his mother-in-law, Matilda Gage, an early feminist historian. 'Wizard of Oz' creator L. Frank Baum to be subject of biopic 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z In particular, “America Rock,” an upbeat celebration of the bicentennial, covers the American Revolution and women’s suffrage but skips over the Civil War and slavery. ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ at 50: Those Are Magic Numbers 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Philpot noted that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women suffrage, and 55 years since the Voting Rights Act, aimed at ridding the process of anti-Black discrimination. Americans are still figuring out how to talk about multiracial identity. Kamala Harris’s nomination is a perfect example. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Harrison argued for women's suffrage but thought she would never want to vote herself. My hero: Jane Ellen Harrison 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Wilson was highly bigoted, contemptuous of women’s suffrage as he was of “Negroes,” but he was not a monster so much as representative of his era. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z She burned to establish the Vanderbilts in a New York high society that shunned them, then turned her back on that by becoming an activist for women’s suffrage. More than a statue: Cooper explores the Vanderbilt legacy 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In the West, Sarah was a vocal and public advocate for women’s suffrage, a detail she keeps from her family and friends back east. Sarah MacLean’s romance pick of the month: ‘Daughters of a Nation’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “When women were working on the suffrage movement,” Ms. Curtis said, “Beach was often pointed to as one of these symbols of women’s achievements, that women can work at the highest level in every field.” Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z For this now canonical text, hooks took her title from a line in the 1863 published version of Sojourner Truth’s speech in favor of women’s suffrage, which she gave in 1851 in Akron, Ohio. In Praise of bell hooks 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z “It’s inevitable, looking at history and what our sisters went through, getting suffrage, that this is what happens.” Wichita resumes its fight for reproductive freedom 2013-04-12T14:49:00Z This year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, two venerable museums have extended that invitation in a dramatic way. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Another hornet’s nest resulted after a planned Central Park monument to women’s suffrage, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, was criticized for excluding black women. New York’s Cultural Affairs Leader Makes Surprise Exit 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The headmistress and four other teachers were given notice to leave, clearly because of their sympathy with the suffrage campaign … A term of complete disorder followed. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z And those 23 marchers were the kinds of women other suffrage supporters considered militant and shockingly unrefined. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z At the women’s suffrage event on Monday, the mother of one of the children chosen to attend praised the first lady. Melania Trump will give her biggest speech in four years. Can she convince skeptical women to vote for her husband? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z He was a foreign emissary for the London branch of the Rothschild bank; she was a supporter of the arts and an active member of the women’s suffrage movement, among other philanthropic and social causes. The Secrets Behind Sargent’s Intimate Portrait of a Jewish Family 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Remember the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments that freed slaves and granted them citizenship and suffrage? Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The design was also heavily criticized for placing only white women on the pedestal — essentially continuing the erasure of Black women’s contributions to the suffrage movement. For Three Suffragists, a Monument Well Past Due 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z With splendid breadth and depth, the novel treats readers to an era’s worth of historical reverberations, from romance to women’s suffrage to psychics to quantum mechanics. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The two are immediately drawn to each other and then are quickly at odds: Owen believes that the fight for women’s suffrage distracts from the work of his organization. Sarah MacLean’s romance pick of the month: ‘Daughters of a Nation’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “The female members of the house Democratic caucus all wore white in honor of women’s suffrage, while the Republicans wore white in honor of who elected them,” he joked. Late-night hosts on Trump's speech: 'So many handshakes, such little hands' 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z So what happened that so many women found it acceptable to march for suffrage in 1915? From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z At screenings, she said, she heard young women connecting women’s suffrage to their own lives and concerns, piquing her interest in what contemporary girlhood was like. How ‘Rocks’ Made Stars of Its Schoolgirl Cast 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Now, decades after the suffrage movement, and women’s lib, and the sexual revolution, the abstract idea of “the wife” still looms large in our cultural imagination—and sanctimony, loyalty, and resentment orbit her like moons. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Things changed again for the better in the early 1900s when older women led the fight for suffrage and gained some economic strength as consumers and workers, earning their own money as secretaries and teachers. Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z On her third day, she did a story about the women’s suffrage movement. At the March for Our Lives, you’ll see her name again. But who was Marjory Stoneman Douglas? 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z It takes place during World War I, at the same time as the American and British suffrage movements. Wonder Woman Breaks Through 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Harboring racist beliefs, Cady Stanton convinced men that allowing white women to vote would cancel the Black man's vote, and that made the men willing to support women's suffrage. A feminist reckoning for six Beyoncé songs 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z In 1871, she organized a national suffrage convention in Washington, which pushed the argument that women, under the recently adopted 14th Amendment, were citizens and therefore already had the right to vote. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Utah was one of the first states to grant women suffrage. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z “Fight the Power” examines the labor movement of the 1880s, women’s suffrage and civil rights along with the LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter initiatives. Q&A: Abdul-Jabbar talks new documentary, MLK, social justice 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Among his fans are city businessmen who see universal suffrage as a way of bringing a share of political influence to a middle class whose economic influence is growing. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Last August the former Democratic presidential candidate, secretary of state and first lady signed a deal to executive produce The Women’s Hour, a Steven Spielberg-produced series about the suffrage movement. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to form film and TV production company 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z These words were uttered to me in 2009 by an actor in full early 20th century suffrage costume at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. Surely it's time American women's equality was added to the constitution 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z As one devoted viewer tweeted: “Watching a Hallmark Christmas movie where Angela Lansbury is Mrs. Claus and gets involved in women’s suffrage and it’s a musical. Why is this not a gay icon?” We can’t take any more of 2017, so we’ve turned to the Hallmark Channel in desperation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Rouse, a historian, highlights the often unrecognized queer history of the women’s suffrage movement and argues that queer suffragists challenged traditional notions of family, space and death both subtly and radically. Newly Published, From Palestinian Poetry to Stories on Reproductive Freedom 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z In North America, settlers such as Abraham Smith and Millicent Howard worked to earn the right to both land and suffrage, freedom through property. TV review: Christopher and His Kind 2011-03-20T21:04:00Z A replica of a mobile wagon filled with distributable suffrage ephemera is in the third, transitional gallery. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Miss., Wells became a crusading African American journalist who exposed the crime and shame of lynching and fought for women’s suffrage. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z A Boston-based faction, led by Lucy Stone and others, strongly supported it, arguing that including women would doom the amendment and that women’s suffrage would be better pursued at the state and local level. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Yet at the end of her life, she left most of her fortune to the cause of women’s suffrage, helping secure the passage of the 19th Amendment. Today We’d Call Her a Progressive Heroine. She’d Have Hated It. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Amid mass immigration, industrial strife, women's suffrage, world war and racial unrest, it evoked a genteel-sounding, rural past where everyone knew their place. The corrupt nostalgia of “My Old Kentucky Home” 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Their attire stood out as symbolic of a new beginning, as well as a nod to the women’s suffrage movement. Perspective | For Nancy Pelosi and the new women in Congress, fashion was a defiant statement of purpose — and resistance 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z There is a 1917 letter from an anti-women’s suffrage leader in New York urging her congressman to vote against suffrage, calling it “a national endorsement of nagging.” ArtsBeat: Expansion at the National Archives Means More Focus on Human Rights 2013-06-10T17:17:40Z For that matter, what about the suffrage movement itself? The Too-Easy History of “Suffragette” 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The measure passed, 49 to 47, making women’s suffrage the law of the land. One ‘good boy’ helped give women the right to vote 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Switzerland was the second-to-last European country to embrace women's suffrage in 1971, more than half a century after Norway, Germany, Canada and the United States. Swiss firms set goals to get more women into top roles 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z He hated the Freedmen’s Bureau and the radicals who supported it, even comparing it to slavery itself, and he loathed the idea of black suffrage. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z For years, the drive for women’s suffrage was presented mainly as the story of middle-class white women and iconic national leaders like Anthony and Stanton. The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “The female members of the House Democratic caucus wore white in honor of women’s suffrage, while the Republicans were white, in honor of who elected them.” Stephen Colbert Goes Live to Dissect Trump’s Address 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Short Edwardian plays connected to the suffrage movement. DC Theater Friday: ‘Three Sisters’ 2.0, plus a ‘Nasty Women’ rep 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z A look at women’s suffrage — the longest reform movement in American history — through images, documents, audio and video recordings. The best exhibitions of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The center also plans to explore subjects ranging from women’s suffrage to the modern women’s movement. New-York Historical Society to Open Women’s History Center 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Built around 1850, the historic home was once occupied by the Blackwell family, pioneers in the abolition, women’s suffrage, and prohibition movements. On the Market: A Cliffside Cottage on Martha’s Vineyard 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z “Let’s face it, they are the ones that got us out of the corsets, went for the suffrage,” she said. On Famous Heads, High Season for Hats (and Hatmakers) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Now she is to embody the Pankhurst legend, the quintessential family name associated with the fight for women’s suffrage in the early the 20th century. Meryl Streep urges Congress to back equal rights amendment 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Unlike Wyoming, the first to approve woman suffrage, Utah was already majority-female at that point, and many of those Mormon women supported both suffrage and plural marriage. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Drawn into women’s suffrage activism while studying in England, Paul returned to the United States determined to build on a movement that seemed to have stalled. The perfect children’s book for kids who won’t be quiet 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Addie visits Rockport several times, and each visit, though straightforward on its surface, is an assertion of her independence in an era when women's suffrage was a contentious issue. 'The Boston Girl' by Anita Diamant is pleasant but lacks bite 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The piecemeal, partial progress of women’s suffrage history is also emphasized in “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote,” at the National Archives through Jan. 3, 2021. The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Before this Edwardian aristocrat will support women’s suffrage, she requires an intervention involving a famous pianist, a famous artist, a literature professor and a potted fern wearing a hat. Review | Women and age-old struggles take center stage in two local productions 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The protesters, 60,000 to 80,000 strong according to contemporary estimates, marched under a broad banner of reform, demanding expanded suffrage, tax relief and repeal of the trade-inhibiting Corn Laws. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z This “Much Ado” is set in the era of World War I and women’s suffrage. Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Prevails in Bryant Park 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The National Woman’s Party was founded in 1916 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who advocated for increased militancy in the suffrage battle. Library of Congress Acquires Archives of the National Woman’s Party 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The newly donated materials include about 100 scrapbooks, which document events like the party’s publicity-generating pageants, parades and long-distance “suffrage hikes.” Library of Congress Acquires Archives of the National Woman’s Party 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z She tells how she "danced with temper" when she heard Asquith's proposal for limited suffrage. Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes 2013-03-29T15:59:01Z After her return, in 1909, she works at the Washington Children’s Home Society, in Spokane, then joins that state’s suffrage campaign, in 1910. A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z They helped with the cause of abolition and fought for suffrage. ‘The First Kennedys’ explores a dynasty’s humble Irish roots 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z When beauty pageants rose to popularity during the women's suffrage movement, they were hailed as the feminist event of the century. "How to Fix a Pageant" director on 2022 Miss USA scandal: "It was clear something was not right" 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z This is a fantastic survival from a period when the militant arm of the women's suffrage movement was most active. Suffragette autograph album illuminates movement's struggles 2012-12-06T14:30:00Z The film, set for release in the US later this month, centers on the first members of the British women’s suffrage movement. Meryl Streep and co-stars attract backlash over Suffragette T-shirt slogan 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Edge came to the cause in middle age, an affluent and well-connected amateur bird-watcher who had developed political skills fighting for woman’s suffrage. The Long History of Those Who Fought to Save the Animals 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z She threw herself into drawing news media attention to the universal suffrage movement and putting pressure on President Woodrow Wilson and Congress to support it. The perfect children’s book for kids who won’t be quiet 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z There, Ms. Tax began researching the labor and suffrage movements of the late 19th century. Meredith Tax, Feminist Author, Historian and Activist, Dies at 80 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z You might think we’ve outgrown such stuff here in the age of universal suffrage and women’s rugby; the frail-sex-in-jeopardy gimmick seems a bit retrograde. Critic?s Notebook: New TV: ?Gator Boys? and ?American Stuffers? 2012-01-01T18:02:55Z Wells “challenged every type of convention,” including sexism in the civil rights community and racism in the women’s suffrage movement, Hannah-Jones said. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Levinson zeroes in on what convenience and lower prices meant to women, and notes how, as he puts it, “the consumer movement arose from the long campaign for woman suffrage.” Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z Between recipes for traditional Boston dishes like fish chowder and Parker House rolls were sidebars about suffrage and what the right to vote would mean. A brief, subversive history of women baking for liberation 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Penning’s Anthony is devastated when Douglass presses for the rights of blacks, in the proposed 15th Amendment to the Constitution, without demanding that women’s suffrage be written into the document, as well. Two heroes of 19th-century America seek justice. They get none in ‘The Agitators.’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z With the success of the temperance movement and women's suffrage only one state away from ratification, the time calls for women to provide for their own freedom, anyway they can. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Everyone's screwed 2010-10-25T05:01:00Z Downtown, at the Public Theater, the sold-out “Suffs” depicts the women’s suffrage movement in the years leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment. Hitting the Right Notes When Setting History to Song 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z There are arenas, like equality under the law and universal suffrage, where it's appropriate to ask that all groups, in terms of gender, ethnicity, wealth, ability, disability, age, etc are proportionately represented. Does it matter that there are no women up for the Palme d'Or? 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z It was a strategic move for supporters of suffrage — an assurance to the opposition that women in political office needn’t be threatening. Perspective | Who cares whether you think these women are likable. They’re in power now. 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Dracula Bram Stoker’s vampire tale is seen through the lens of the 19th century women’s suffrage movement in Jayce Johnson’s new adaptation. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 20-27: 'Drunk Girl' and more 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z It was 1874, a challenging year for Susan B. Anthony and the women’s suffrage movement. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z She speaks to the Montana legislature on suffrage the following year, as a representative of the Missoula Political Equality Club, and leads the suffrage movement to success in Montana, in 1914. A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z With woman’s suffrage finally ratified, Margaret takes Nucky up on his offer to act as distaff power broker, introducing his favored mayoral candidate with an inspirational speech that’s more impressive for its utter disingenuousness. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Women's suffrage arrives 2010-11-22T06:01:00Z We get to see Frederick Douglass approach Lincoln on the subject of black suffrage, and Mary Todd Lincoln press him about women’s right to vote. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z There are versions that talk about temperance, about women’s suffrage, about presidential campaigns, including Abraham Lincoln’s. Is the National Anthem Racist? Beyond the Debate Over Colin Kaepernick. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Even while musicalizing Shakespeare for the Public Theater, she is writing her own show, about the women’s suffrage movement, backed by one of the lead producers of “Hamilton.” Finding Music in Shakespeare, Suffragists and Mitch McConnell 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z But Ms. Gordon said the collection was very much “a political archive,” illuminating the years immediately following 1869, when the suffrage movement had split over the 15th Amendment. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z So there is a lot to be gleaned from a newly discovered trove of nearly 100 letters that leaders and thinkers in the women’s suffrage movement sent to one another. Stephen Colbert Thinks We’d Rather Keep Our Web Browsing to Ourselves 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Having won the battle for suffrage and planted the seeds of feminism, they matured from flapper to screen siren. Review: American Women on the March 2010-05-03T12:00:00Z She is shown at a tea and on a stage, at the piano with a large group of suffrage supporters. | Long Island: ‘Bellport: Summer, 1900’ Exhibition Is at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society 2013-07-12T18:43:57Z One, the National Woman Suffrage Assn., led by Stanton and Anthony, opposed ratification of the 15th Amendment because it included suffrage only for black men. A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z He arrived in Columbus, Ohio, from Cheyenne, Wyo., where the state was commemorating 150 years of women’s suffrage, and then moved on to Williamsburg, Va. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The early organizations were not overtly political, but their members often were: active in the suffrage movement, determined, as Ms. Turk put it, to prove themselves intellectual equals to men. When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Some even oppose changes that would improve their lot: many European women, for example, opposed the introduction of female suffrage in the early 20th century. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Burns, one of the leaders of the suffrage movement in Washington, D.C., was imprisoned in Lorton for protesting. One ‘good boy’ helped give women the right to vote 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Everett Wheeler, the president of East Side House, felt that another hazard lay with the woman suffrage movement. Streetscapes: East Side House Settlements: A Sight to See When Traffic Stalls 2012-11-11T05:27:15Z The women’s suffrage movement — the exhibition includes two extensive cases dedicated to the British and American campaigns — was an early anchor. The Overlooked History of Women at Work 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Later still, she was active in the women’s suffrage movement. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In 2017, Garvey’s poster was acquired for the archives of the National Woman’s Party — an organization which had, a century earlier, led the most militant fringe of the American suffrage movement. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The petition, signed by more than 1,000 free men of color, asked Lincoln to enact universal suffrage for black men. Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z She followed that in 1976 with a biography of Victoria Woodhull, a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Located on a country road in the township of Newbury, about an hour east of downtown Cleveland, Union Chapel was once one of the most important places in the women’s suffrage and dress reform movements. 5 feminist history reasons to visit Cleveland — whether you’re protesting, attending or working the Republican National Convention 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Part one details the work of suffrage pioneers and the clash between the rights of African American women and efforts to gain support in former Confederate states. New this week: Willie Nelson, Nick race special, ‘Hamilton’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Bellport became a center for the suffrage movement, as shown in several photographs with accompanying text. | Long Island: ‘Bellport: Summer, 1900’ Exhibition Is at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society 2013-07-12T18:43:57Z To explore gender, class and diversity in portraiture, the gallery mounted exhibits on the suffrage movement in the United States, misrepresentation of minorities in art, and women of the Civil War. How the National Portrait Gallery’s gala tapped A-list celebrities to become a hot ticket 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z A planned Central Park monument to women’s suffrage, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, was criticized for excluding black women. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Abigail was an ardent woman who chafed against convention and was an early advocate for women’s suffrage and the abolition of slavery. An extraordinary mother-daughter pair: Louisa May Alcott and her mother 2012-12-07T00:25:58Z Douglass, as part of a delegation of Black Americans that visited the White House to argue for Black suffrage, told Johnson, “You enfranchise your enemies and disfranchise your friends.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z They also saw an opportunity to carefully choreograph and sell an image of suffrage. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z A second, the American Woman Suffrage Assn., led by Stone and others, supported the 15th Amendment, as a "positive move toward universal suffrage." A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “The Accursed” is in that tradition: American epics exploring and dramatizing leading issues of the day like women’s suffrage, racial discrimination, the moral bankruptcy of the Christian ruling class. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z The president met with the two men, told them that their suffrage was up to the state of Louisiana, and then wrote a letter to Louisiana’s governor urging him to allow some black voters. Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z She fought against lynching and fought for women’s suffrage and laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Still, the production offers a rare chance to experience the adrenaline-rush passions of the suffrage era, a time when theater helped fuel a political movement. Review | Women and age-old struggles take center stage in two local productions 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z And, intent on a broader political mission, that history devotes unusual attention to women’s suffrage and the treatment of American Indians. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z Yet at the same time, Johnson was publicly insisting that suffrage too radical would set off “a war of the races.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z But as she started sorting through the material, dusting away ample mouse droppings, she was stunned to realize it was a rich archive of suffrage material. A Trove on the Women’s Suffrage Struggle, Found in an Old Box 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In a video interview, Thompson said the idea of a musical about the suffrage movement initially sounded “like a ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch.” Friendship, Betrayal and the Fight: ‘Suffs’ Tells the Suffragist Tale in Song 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Beyond suffrage, the show includes documents from women’s history. Revisiting the Fervor of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Presumably Balding was enlisted because of her racing nous – it certainly wasn't her extensive knowledge of suffrage. Rewind TV: Henry VII: Winter King; The Fall; Secrets of a Suffragette; Up the Women; Psychobitches – review 2013-06-01T17:00:01Z Since its establishment, Union Chapel served as a hub of women’s suffrage, hosting public figures including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Louisa May Alcott and Lucy Stone. 5 feminist history reasons to visit Cleveland — whether you’re protesting, attending or working the Republican National Convention 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z I don’t remember my grade school history books dedicating more than a few sentences to the women’s suffrage movement. ‘Suffs’ Review: Young, Scrappy and Hungry for the Right to Vote 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z She also took part in all the suffrage marches, and she nursed Mrs Pankhurst and others recovering from hunger strikes in her own home. What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary Somerville got in common? 2013-03-07T11:00:00Z Kops doesn’t ignore the divisions, rivalries and missteps of the suffrage struggle and subsequent legislative battles. The perfect children’s book for kids who won’t be quiet 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z One of the great, though tragic, chapters of the road to suffrage, Milholland’s story, like so many others of women’s history, is little known to the wider public. She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’ 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The monologues are variously witty, worshipful, angry and determined as they take on subjects as widespread as writer’s block, political action, foster care and suffrage itself. Review: It’s Just You and Me and the Modem in ‘Here We Are’ 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z They were so pumped to vote, urgent even – imagine 13-year-olds in line five years early, already understanding how important suffrage is. My first week in Donald Trump’s America: There’s work to be done, but we gon’ be alright 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The exhibition includes a range of celebrity brains, including those of 19th-century murderer William Burke and women's suffrage pioneer Helen Gardiner. Brains! London exhibition looks inside our skulls 2012-03-27T16:31:04Z Chances are, any establishment Republican would have been fine for Thiel’s business interests, and Thiel had already scandalized Silicon Valley with his criticisms of women’s suffrage and immigration. ‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive Core 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z His mantra of modernisation did not extend to universal suffrage. Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z Prohibition was tied both to the introduction of the income tax and universal suffrage, and radically altered the relation of citizen and government. Television: On the Boardwalk, HBO Hangs Out With a New Mob 2010-09-03T19:34:00Z The murder mystery becomes entangled, at times awkwardly, with larger social issues like unionism, anarchism and the women’s suffrage movement. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Germany before the first world war was a torn country: its constitution offered equal suffrage to every male over 25, which made it one of the most liberal electoral systems in the world. First world war: next year, let's remember a world, rather than a British, conflict 2013-07-23T04:00:00Z An 1876 letter to Willard displayed here, from Susan B. Anthony, cheers the linkage of women’s suffrage to the temperance movement. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z “That is part of the story of women’s suffrage too.” The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z At least one reason for demanding suffrage was to pass laws prohibiting alcohol. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z She continued her investigative reports about disparities in the American education system under segregation, mistreatment that African Americans experienced, and the road to women’s suffrage. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z A decade after she died, and thanks in part to the suffrage groups she led, women were able to lay claim to the ballot box. Her truth marches on 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In a letter to The Times in 1913, he said that if suffragists “really went honestly to work and earned their own living” then the “suffrage dyspeptic” would disappear. Streetscapes: East Side House Settlements: A Sight to See When Traffic Stalls 2012-11-11T05:27:15Z "The suffrage and abolitionist movement was black men and white and black women — the exact groups that weren't supposed to be together, for a century," she said, "because there were so many parallels." Gloria Steinem revs up memories and travels in 'My Life On the Road' memoir 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z She is currently writing a show about the women’s suffrage movement, and is working on lyrics for the upcoming Broadway musical production of “The Devil Wears Prada.” Three Musical Theater Writers Receive $100,000 Kleban Prizes 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The embrace of cross-cultural issues introduced suffrage to a broader group of women and enlivened the campaign in a way that a short time before seemed completely unimaginable. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z As democratic citizens, we enjoy taking pride in democracy’s achievements: suffrage, immigration, civil rights. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z An Archives spokeswoman told The Washington Post the changes to a large-format image included in an exhibition about women’s suffrage were made “so as not to engage in current political controversy.” Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z “Since taking office,” she said Monday at an event celebrating women’s suffrage, “my husband and this administration have taken historic measures to empower and support women in the United States — and around the world.” Melania Trump will give her biggest speech in four years. Can she convince skeptical women to vote for her husband? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Take, for example, the claim, verbatim, that “women’s suffrage destroyed western civilization.” 5 conservatives who are still mad women have the right to vote 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “In part, this is inspired by the news cycle or the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage. However, from the vantage of history, it hardly seems enough,” Ms. Sterling said. In the #MeToo Era, Museums Celebrate Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The worries of those 19th-century opponents of universal suffrage were not without foundation. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The first issue to consider is universal suffrage — at least for men. Is America more racist, or more sexist? Admittedly, it’s a tough call 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The original callout for the commission noted that the sculpture should “honor the memory of others, besides Stanton and Anthony, who helped advance the cause of woman suffrage over the 72 -year battle.” For Three Suffragists, a Monument Well Past Due 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The women detailed their plans for traveling, lecturing and lobbying for women’s suffrage, and expressed their concern for each other. Long Unseen, Treasures Have a New Spotlight 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Fowler closes out her narrative just as Alva’s life is entering its final phase, when she has lent her prestige and given a big chunk of her money to the cause of women’s suffrage. Review | A look back at the ‘supreme hostess’ of the American gilded age 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Since the women’s suffrage movement included only a small minority of women, how in fact did they seem to Maud and to her colleagues? The Too-Easy History of “Suffragette” 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The former, meanwhile, consists of scathing pieces concerning Thiel’s skepticism about women’s suffrage, his dream of a floating libertarian nation-state, and his belief that “freedom and democracy are incompatible.” Gawker’s Essential Unevenness 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Artist Mary Branson says her work is a tribute to the thousands of ordinary woman and men who campaigned for women's suffrage. Artwork marking women's vote battle lights up UK Parliament 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z She began speaking on women's suffrage before the Seneca Falls Convention took place and for years toured the United States as a popular public speaker. A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z A fierce advocate of Black suffrage, Boguille was nearly killed in 1866 when an armed mob led by police burst into a reconvened Louisiana constitutional convention. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z A section of the show is devoted to the National Woman’s Party, and the suffrage campaign has its own processional images: parades of women costumed as allegorical Virtues and carrying banners with tweet-short slogans. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Wartime xenophobia revealed how the suffrage campaign never escaped its race or ethnic privilege — white women thought suffrage would ultimately strengthen the white vote. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In 1917, about 170 women’s suffrage activists were sent there and many were brutalized. In the galleries: Brick by brick, a dark history emerges 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Her calendar for 2022 alone includes 11 world premieres of compositions that range from a solo cello piece to a major choral work commemorating 100 years of women’s suffrage. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Slaves seeking freedom, as well as abolitionists and people of principle—Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau—flee north to Canada, where Susan B. Anthony leads a successful drive for women’s suffrage. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” a Faux Documentary That Skewers Real White Supremacy 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s never good for Trump when they pull out the suffrage white and move en masse like some righteous regiment of lady warriors. Perspective | Congressional Democrats wore their white-hot fury to the State of the Union 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Witness all the Reform Acts in 19th Century Britain and the decision of French liberals in 1848 to approve universal manhood suffrage. "Plutocrats and populists": The GOP's "contradictory principles" make a perfect recipe for fascism 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z By the mid-1800s, women started to fight back, demanding suffrage, or the right to vote. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z In 1909, when women’s suffrage was omitted from the King’s Speech outlining the government’s legislative program, the league hired an airship to drop pamphlets over the capital. Making a mark: London’s historic blue plaques seek more diversity as 1,000th marker is unveiled 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z “When suffrage was introduced in 1878, it took 41 years, but that wasn’t symbolic,” Clegg said. California lawmakers pass Newsom's call for U.S. constitutional convention on gun control 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Notably, John Wilkes Booth decided to assassinate Lincoln after hearing the wartime president give a speech affirming support for Black suffrage. PragerU's Confederate propaganda isn't just misleading — it props up modern insurrectionists 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Andrew Jackson changed that by expanding suffrage to all white men, but of course denied those rights to white women and most people who were not white. "Plutocrats and populists": The GOP's "contradictory principles" make a perfect recipe for fascism 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Under the leadership of Mary Church Terrell, the group had similar goals as the mostly white suffrage organization. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z She went on not only to campaign for the fair treatment of her female colleagues but joined the fight for women's suffrage. Ada Nield Chew: The factory girl who fought for women’s rights 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z She calls Sophia "an important bridge between Indian activists and white British activists for female suffrage". Sophia Duleep Singh: Indian princess who fought for women to vote in UK 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z During the suffrage movement, women pushed baby carriages as they marched for the right to vote. ‘Mama bears’ may be the 2024 race’s soccer moms. But where the GOP seeks votes, some see extremism 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Those parts of the New World with more Europeans within the British Empire, for example, like North America, were more likely to develop and sustain democratic institutions like parliaments, with restricted suffrage of course. Untangling the deep and troubled roots of democracy can help define its future 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The movement for women’s suffrage wasn’t always peaceful. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Then a few years later, Ada became involved with the fight for women's suffrage. Ada Nield Chew: The factory girl who fought for women’s rights 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z China had promised universal suffrage as an ultimate goal for Hong Kong in its mini-constitution, the Basic Law. Hong Kong slashes directly elected seats in local polls, further reducing democracy 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The women became a force in the suffrage movement as they fought for their rights as veterans. Taproot Theatre takes on story of American women who helped win WWI 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Crenshaw and other speakers compared the push for a total abortion ban to the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements. A year after Dobbs, pro-life supporters debate 15-week abortion limits vs. total ban 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z She and her fellow protesters were yelled at and struck by people who were against suffrage. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Xi presides over a one-party system that many human rights groups, Western leaders and academics call a dictatorship because it lacks an independent judiciary, free media, or universal suffrage for national office. Biden addresses Xi 'dictator' remark, says US-China relations unharmed 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z The country had initially been scheduled to revert to universal suffrage in 2020 but protracted squabbles among politicians and persisting insecurity across the country forced the government to retain the indirect ballot. Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z As a member of the WSPU, she used her status and wealth to support women's suffrage. Sophia Duleep Singh: Blue plaque honours suffragette Indian princess 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Its constitution guaranteed universal suffrage for men and women, fundamental human rights, and the complete rejection of the remnants of monarchism. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Realizing how important women were, President Woodrow Wilson changed his mind about the suffrage movement and started supporting women’s right to vote. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z An extensive Bill of Rights guaranteed academic freedom, women’s suffrage, the right to choose residence, collective bargaining, and full employment. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z While the amendment was introduced in Congress in 1923 by leaders of the suffrage movement, it only passed in March 1972. Schumer announces Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z “I like to paraphrase Condi Rice. She always talks about suffrage and things that happened before. But also look forward. What can I do to make it better for those who come behind us?” MASTERS ’23: 20 years after protests, women still look ahead 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Its secondary goals, the “in the meantime” activities, were focused on securing universal manhood suffrage and trying to shore up the quality of life of workers. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z These resolutions, including the right to vote, would be the guiding principles for the women’s suffrage movement. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Germany gave women the vote in 1918, the first country to grant universal adult female suffrage, as did the United States in 1920. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z She had little interest in politics, opposed women’s suffrage and declined a friend’s invitation to attend Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 inaugural parade and a presidential tea. Review | Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Baldwin, who previously introduced legislation to put a women’s suffrage monument on federal lands and establish a commission on the 19th Amendment’s centennial in 2020, said the Mall would be the monument’s “rightful place.” Senators lead bipartisan push for women’s suffrage monument on National Mall 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z He believed that universal manhood suffrage should and would lead to a government capable of implementing necessary economic changes, primarily by guaranteeing work for all citizens. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Lucy Stone and her husband, Henry Brown Blackwell, had a different idea about how to gain suffrage for women. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z He was jailed again and was in prison when he was elected to office in 1951, in the first election in Africa in which universal suffrage was allowed. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z That was in 1962, when lawmakers rejected a proposal to elect the president by universal suffrage. Here’s what to expect in Monday’s no-confidence vote in France. 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Blackburn noted she is the first female senator from Tennessee and that it would be important to honor key women in the suffrage movement, including Susan B. Anthony, on the Mall. Senators lead bipartisan push for women’s suffrage monument on National Mall 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z As almost all of the states of Europe moved toward male suffrage, leaders were often shocked by the fact that they had to cultivate public opinion in order to pass the laws they supported. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the suffrage movement was starting to gain support all over the country, Black women faced other challenges. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “People won’t mobilize for a law that’s already been voted on by the Parliament because French workers recognize the legitimacy of Parliament that results from universal suffrage,” said Guy Groux, a sociologist at Sciences Po. Garbage Mounts in Odorous Last Stand Against France’s Pension Change 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z At age 92, she led a march of 10,000 Delta Sigma Theta members in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the sorority’s involvement in the suffrage movement. It’s Women’s Day. Here are 20 important WA women you should know about 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z A second one you mention in the book is partial suffrage. The case to let children vote: Why law professor Adam Benforado calls for a “minor revolution" 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z One of first-wave feminism’s major goals was women’s suffrage: the right of women to vote. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1869, she spoke in front of the South Carolina House of Representatives about voting rights for everyone, and in 1871, she wrote an article for the suffrage group’s newspaper that read: Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z It would be a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if passed. California proposal would reinstate prisoners’ voting rights 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Stanton and Susan B. Anthony refused to support it, arguing that if universal suffrage could not be obtained, white women should earn the ballot before Black men. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Another form of partial suffrage would be to give them a full vote but only on some issues. The case to let children vote: Why law professor Adam Benforado calls for a “minor revolution" 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z In fact, it would be misleading to claim that first-wave feminism was primarily focused on suffrage, since suffrage itself was seen by feminists as only one component of what was needed to realize women’s equality. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z “We ask suffrage not as a favor, not as a privilege, but as a right based on the grounds that we are human beings and as such entitled to all human rights.” Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z From granting women suffrage more than 50 years before the 19th Amendment to passing the first law protecting same-sex marriage in 2012, Washington has long led the nation on important issues integral to self-determination. For WA, the advantages of federalism are clear 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Her lack of legal standing as a woman inspired her to join the women’s suffrage movement. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Now another way to do partial suffrage is to grant children a full vote but allow others to exercise it until children possess the requisite independence and capacity to take the reins. The case to let children vote: Why law professor Adam Benforado calls for a “minor revolution" 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z On the left, however, both liberal and socialist politicians were largely in support of women’s suffrage…in theory. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1890 the two suffrage groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Women voters, on the verge of acquired suffrage in our state, launched a successful recall petition. Newly enfranchised women sparked 1911 recall of Seattle Mayor Hiram Gill 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, Arizona’s admission to the union was delayed until 1912 due to its push for women’s suffrage. Column: In the desert, history blooms as Arizona tops records with a fifth female governor 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Emerson was right when he said, “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. … Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.” Opinion | Cody Johnson gives hope for a united America 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Women, too, won suffrage victories decades before the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920; in 1887, for instance, women in Kansas were granted the right to run and vote in city elections. Review | Why the Midwest should be a role model, not a punchline 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “For a newsroom that has suffrage at its core, doing journalism that is empowering an informed electorate is the goal,” agreed Errin Haines of The 19th, a nonprofit news organization. Can News Be Made Into a Sustainable Business? 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z If you created a Venn diagram of 19th century social movements, you would find hefty overlap among the crusades for temperance, for the abolition of slavery and for women’s suffrage. A toast to the misunderstood temperance movement on the anniversary of its demise 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Opposition morphed into months of violent unrest in the city as the protesters’ demands widened to include universal suffrage and other democratic aspirations. Hong Kong official warns lockdown protests hurt security 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z As the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented, Ramsey is a white nationalist who has labeled women’s suffrage a “cancer” and questioned the historical truth of the Holocaust. Column: Elon Musk's engagement with the far right on Twitter is out of control 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Churchill's attitude towards Ireland and Bolshevik Russia badly damaged his relationship with these voters, along with limited female suffrage, which Churchill later said had "altered the political character of Dundee". The day Winston Churchill lost his 'seat for life' 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Here’s who fought for and against women’s suffrage. L.A. hasn't yet elected a woman as mayor. But a few have come close 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The Chinese leader presides over a one-party system that many human rights groups, Western leaders and academics call a dictatorship because it lacks an independent judiciary, free media, or universal suffrage for national office. Xi to Biden: Knock off the democracy vs. autocracy talk 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z “There’s so much about Harriet Tubman, the underground railroad, her work as a spy, in the suffrage movement,” said William Jarmon, 79, who oversees the all-volunteer Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center. Perspective | 200 years after Harriet Tubman’s birth, Md. finally gets a Black governor 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z In the final weeks of the election, Democrats are pushing to frame Gibbs as an extremist by pointing out college writings in which he argued that the United States “has suffered because of women’s suffrage.” New boundaries, new dynamics have Democrats hopeful in Michigan swing district 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The historic female-majority parliament in New Zealand has been achieved in a country that boasts a long history of women’s suffrage. New Zealand’s Parliament becomes majority female — ‘about blimmin’ time’ 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “Using the cookbooks, they could talk about the recipes first, and then move on to suffrage later.” ‘Black Power Kitchen’ and the legacy of cookbooks on a mission 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z She had suffrage leaflets translated into Spanish and had 50,000 of them handed out by election day. 'Votes for women!' — 110 years ago marked the first time in California 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z While the country adopted universal suffrage in 1971, one region — Appenzell-Innerrhoden — was the last in Switzerland to give equal voting rights to women in local elections, following a Swiss high court ruling in 1990. European court tells Swiss to end discrimination against men 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z This coincided with the end of most “alien suffrage,” as noncitizen voting was called, in America by 1850. Perspective | Noncitizens pay taxes and join the military. Why shouldn’t they vote? 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z “What I knew was historically little parties launched great ventures — anti-slavery, women’s suffrage, labor, farmer — and they never were elected, but they pushed one or the other of the two parties,” he said. Opinion | Two decades after playing ‘spoiler,’ Ralph Nader fights for Democrats 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Over the sweep of history, the American government has tended to become more democratic, through women’s suffrage, civil rights laws, the direct election of senators and more. ‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z The Times, I am sorry to say, was venomously opposed to women’s suffrage. 'Votes for women!' — 110 years ago marked the first time in California 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z There were democratic reforms and economic prosperity in the 1980s and ’90s, but activists condemned Britain for never granting the city’s residents universal suffrage. In Mourning the Queen, Some in Hong Kong Mourn the Past 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z What was then the Grand Duchy of Finland gave women the right to vote in 1906, 14 years before women’s suffrage in the United States. Partying Finnish prime minister tests gender parity, decorum 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z She continued to be active in the suffrage movement, participating in the 1913 suffrage demonstration in Washington that was disrupted by male hooligans. Perspective | Fashion fight: This reformer wanted to change the way women dressed 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z “When Queen Victoria became Queen in 1837, it really helped to precipitate a conversation about women’s suffrage,” she said. Queen Elizabeth, and the Power and Limitations of Inspiring Women 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Naomi Bowman Anderson, a Black woman who moved to San Francisco in the 1890s, took up the suffrage crusade but died in 1899 before it came to pass. 'Votes for women!' — 110 years ago marked the first time in California 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z A flame that lit our way through abolition, the Civil War, suffrage, the Great Depression, world wars, civil rights. Full Transcript of President Biden’s Speech in Philadelphia 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In addition to more formally bound cookbooks, Mrs. Longone collected homespun “charity cookbooks” published, often by women, as fundraisers for churches or other houses of worship and for causes such as women’s suffrage. Janice Bluestein Longone, doyenne of cookbook collectors, dies at 89 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z In this work, hooks examines the effects of racism and sexism on Black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements from suffrage to the 1970s. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In addition to her pioneering work in the settlement house movement, Addams also was active in the women’s suffrage movement as well as an outspoken proponent for international peace efforts. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z She later became a teacher and writer, and, in her work, advanced the causes of women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Did the Empire resist women’s suffrage in India? Independence Day: How Chicago Radio became the voice of India's freedom 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z “The second generation was impatient with Stanton, who refused ‘to sing suffrage evermore,’ preferring ‘the rub-a-dub of agitation.’ Review | An inclusive look at women’s history, beyond White activists 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Douglass went on to work as an activist in the abolitionist movement as well as the women’s suffrage movement. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Others hoped to capitalize on the efforts to further the fight for women’s suffrage. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Most states before the 1830s had also used this authority to deny suffrage to property-less men and often to African American men as well. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Arizona was still a territory when it passed its abortion law in 1901, but the fight for women’s suffrage was in full swing. States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z WRC posts produced patriotic Memorial Day observances, installed flags and monuments, and supported women’s suffrage. Born of war, the Woman’s Relief Corps represented our ‘higher sphere’ 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z When advocating for women’s suffrage, Hill, like other orators, relied on rhetorical strategies to persuade audiences that might have disagreed with her platform. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Ohio’s state constitution placed a minor taxpaying requirement on voters but otherwise allowed for expansive White male suffrage. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When states began to change property requirements for voters in the 1830s, many that had allowed free, property-owning African American men to vote restricted the suffrage to White men. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z At Arizona’s 1911 constitutional convention to become a state, women’s suffrage failed again. States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Such were the stylish markers of where they worked, argued, staged satirical political plays, held salons and marched together for suffrage and workers’ rights, from the launchpad of their bohemian Village enclave. Review | An unruly women’s club that pointed the way to modern feminism 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z It stipulates progressive election reform so that the chief executive and all members of the legislature will eventually be elected through universal suffrage. Hong Kong handover: What will the next 25 years hold? 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Many women also opposed women’s suffrage because they thought the dirty world of politics was a morass to which ladies should not be exposed. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z After many years of campaigns for suffrage, as shown in Figure 2.16, the Nineteenth Amendment finally gave women the right to vote in 1920. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z |
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