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  1. the right to vote in political elections

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The two foremost organizations — the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association — merged as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, but its aging leadership counted few successes outside the West.
Indeed, at the close of the 85033th century, the leading national suffrage movement National American Woman Suffrage Association saw its hopes for passing state-by-state woman suffrage amendments through adopting what was known as the Southern Strategy.
She worked to help Washington state and Montana adopt statewide suffrage, and then worked for national suffrage in the House of Representatives.
One wing of the 19th-century suffrage movement pursued this vision of citizen suffrage protected by the power of the federal government.
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage reminded readers that the true test of support for woman's suffrage was population, not geographical area.
Wartime xenophobia revealed how the suffrage campaign never escaped its race or ethnic privilege — white women thought suffrage would ultimately strengthen the white vote.
Stone and her suffrage association supported the 15th Amendment and then led vital campaigns for female suffrage during the remainder of the 19th century.
By then, fifteen states had passed constitutional amendments allowing full female suffrage; others had partial suffrage, allowing women to vote in school or local elections.
The recently launched New York State Women's Suffrage Commission is working on programs through 2020, the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which achieved women's suffrage nationwide.
You know, the Abolition and Suffrage Movement, in the 1830s, the Suffrage Movement begins to take root out of women who are involved in the Abolition Movement.
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, made up mostly of middle-class women, was formed in 1897, eventually becoming the biggest suffrage organization, with 50,000 members.
Calls for real democracy aren't just calls for general elections and universal suffrage; they are calls for general elections and universal suffrage without any intervention from Beijing.
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.
Women of color like Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, and Frances E.W. Harper were major forces in the movement, working not just for women's suffrage but for universal suffrage.
This is followed by a segment in which Kimmel tries to get women to sign a petition to "end women's suffrage" (the joke is that suffrage sounds like suffering).
" (Perhaps he throws in some disparaging remarks about women's suffrage, for good measure.) The above scene, complete with suffrage references, actually appeared recently, in the animated series "Big Mouth.
That opus more or less erased from the picture the many black women who Dr. Terborg-Penn said had attended suffrage meetings, organized suffrage clubs and promoted the cause.
Black women's suffrage clubs that sought formal affiliation with the national white suffrage movement were discouraged from doing so on the grounds that admitting them might anger white Southerners.
With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded and led several women's groups and suffrage organizations and played a central role in pressing for what would become the 323th Amendment granting women's suffrage.
At the 1913 suffrage march in Washington, for example, Wells and Terrell were outraged when white suffrage leaders asked them to march with a colored delegation at the rear of the parade.
To the Editor: In "A Whitewashed Monument to Women's Suffrage" (Editorial Observer, May 15), Brent Staples bemoans the omission of black women from the proposed Central Park monument to the suffrage movement.
With a very limited suffrage, this was no democracy, but through a continual process of tidying up the borders in a very British manner, the suffrage increased, and parliamentary sovereignty was established.
They include major suffrage figure Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association as well as the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women; Catt's adviser and assistant Mary Garrett Hay; and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, an important financial backer for the suffrage movement.
"Suffragettes" established the National American Woman Suffrage Organization, made speeches, lobbied legislators and presidents, and formed the Woman Suffrage Party in a successful campaign to enact the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.
This year, the Girl Scouts of New York are celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in New York — three years before the 19th amendment granted suffrage to women across the United States.
In 1916, suffragists encouraged women in states that had already legalized suffrage to vote for the presidential candidate Charles Hughes (who championed a women's suffrage amendment) over President Woodrow Wilson (who did not).
In a fascinating new anthology, " The Women's Suffrage Movement " (Penguin Classics), the scholar Sally Roesch Wagner extends the time line of suffrage in this part of the world by nearly a thousand years.
The Boston journalist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who played a leadership role in the Massachusetts suffrage movement in the late 1800s, was the wife of the pro-suffrage state legislator George L. Ruffin.
Hunt said she wore white in honor of women's suffrage.
Here in the U.S., women's suffrage was far from universal.
This is particularly true of his engagement with women's suffrage.
The path to women's suffrage was complicated, and sometimes ugly.
The rest of Howe's life was devoted to women's suffrage.
The party has promised eventual "universal suffrage" in Hong Kong.
And demonstrators are once again demanding universal, and legitimate, suffrage.
She went on to fight for suffrage and tenants' rights.
The final demand is the immediate introduction of universal suffrage.
But they have since broadened into calls for universal suffrage.
"I want universal suffrage!" one protester led others in chanting.
Women's suffrage had, at last, been written into the Constitution.
We just celebrated the passage of suffrage for white women.
The arguments against universal suffrage have taken a few forms.
She is a consultant for the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.
We have all been saying that if woman suffrage is to survive in Great Britain, these militants, who represent but a small part of the suffrage movement, would surely delay the hour of triumph.
She was also an active participant in the women's suffrage movement.
Indeed, that was one of the central arguments against women's suffrage.
Introducing genuine universal suffrage was also on the list of demands.
There are people who marched for women's suffrage in this country.
It would include allowing universal suffrage in choosing the chief executive.
The rally was an act to demand universal suffrage, in particular.
Daniel R. Anthony, nephew of women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony.
On February 6th Britain will celebrate a century of female suffrage.
Others appeared dressed in white in honor of the suffrage movement.
" Some dealt with social issues, such as "The Women's Suffrage Movement.
Susan B. Anthony dedicated her life to fighting for women's suffrage.
Because it's not like the path for progress ended with suffrage.
The 1830s expanded suffrage and created the modern mass political parties.
Perhaps the most notable convert to woman's suffrage was Theodore Roosevelt.
Paradoxically, this was the same era in which women's suffrage succeeded.
Another ingenious idea became an iconic image of the suffrage insurrection.
Whether it's the L.G.B.T. movement or women's suffrage, it doesn't matter.
SUFFRAGE: Women's Long Battle for the Vote, by Ellen Carol DuBois.
And yes, none of the debated visions gave suffrage to women.
They have since broadened to include demands such as universal suffrage.
The protests have evolved to include five demands, including universal suffrage.
"Progress on suffrage has always tended to be incremental," Manning wrote.
The most principled democratic stance is that suffrage should be universal.
For example, women's suffrage faced many battles before it eventually passed.
Why must supposedly universal adult suffrage exclude people convicted of crimes?
In 21848, a white woman at a meeting of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association complained that New York had become an "asylum for the trash of all nations," arguing that women's suffrage ought to be restricted.
She was elected president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1883.
Lady Sybil, who dabbles in the suffrage and worker's rights movements before
Another part of the Constitution that has not aged well is suffrage.
"We could (then) fight for more universal suffrage in the coming term."
What does vandalizing the subway system have to do with universal suffrage?
Women in full makeup participate in the Great Suffrage Spectacle circa 2777.
Other demands include charges against protesters to be dropped and universal suffrage.
But only 40 of its 70 seats are elected through universal suffrage.
Campaign officials have billed the initiative as a celebration of women's suffrage.
Clinton's candidacy into the context of women's suffrage and the feminist movement.
Restoring the right of universal suffrage should be part of that recovery.
"Imprisoning us will not extinguish Hongkongers' desire for universal suffrage," he wrote.
Beijing said in 2007 that it would grant universal suffrage in 2017.
People are not even talking about universal suffrage or resulting political reform.
After suffrage wars, politicians were worried about pleasing their new female constituents.
In a 2018 London conference about women's suffrage, Simmonds drew a cartoon.
In short, white women focused their suffrage campaigns on votes for women.
To Bagehot, Mill's idea of broadly extending suffrage to women seemed absurd.
Lam must resign and that a successor be elected through universal suffrage.
In 1911 she moved to Milwaukee to spearhead the statewide suffrage campaign.
The photo was part of an exhibit celebrating the Women's suffrage movement.
"The Divine Order" examines that fight for women's suffrage in a microcosm.
Chroniclers of the suffrage struggle tended not to record their black peers.
Eleven western states and the Alaska territory had legalized women's suffrage before.
Elected before suffrage, Jeanette Rankin seemed to be getting ahead of history.
It wasn't unusual for saloons to display anti-suffrage posters and keep a pile of leaflets on the bar; the promise of a free beer in exchange for a no vote on a suffrage referendum was common practice.
In January 1913 — five months before Illinois gave women the right to vote — she threw herself deeply into politics in Chicago, where she started the nonpartisan Alpha Suffrage Club, the first black women's suffrage association in the city.
Can Hong Kong see any universal suffrage in 20 or 30 year's time?
She is currently writing one about the suffrage fight in New York City.
The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 gave women's suffrage a much-needed spotlight.
The Actresses' Franchise League (AFL) is a little-known piece of suffrage history.
Optimism for 'more universal suffrage' Popular elections are a long way off, however.
Switzerland was one of the last European nations to adopt universal female suffrage.
The movement has galvanized protesters' continued demand for democracy, autonomy and universal suffrage.
We did that with abolition and with women's suffrage and with civil rights.
But suffrage for women represented a challenge to centuries of established political thought.
It's very on theme for Streep to narrate a movie about women's suffrage.
In 1912 the NUWSS established a fund to assail candidates who opposed suffrage.
The Women's National Republican Club was founded by leaders of the suffrage movement.
Arthur M. Dodge, the president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
She traveled around the country advocating for a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage.
The Memphis Suffrage Monument, scheduled to be unveiled in August, honors 13 people.
It was the first major demonstration in Washington in support of women's suffrage.
Newspapers at the time paid little attention to the push for women's suffrage.
Protester demands include universal suffrage and an independent investigation into alleged police brutality.
Protesters have demanded universal suffrage and an independent probe into alleged police brutality.
Consider the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Some women were so satisfied with that arrangement that they rejected suffrage outright.
All three were dead by the time suffrage passed seventy-one years later.
" But this will not be Virginia, "since her slaves will have no suffrage.
It was three months after the Suffrage Act was passed, not a year.
Significantly, black women were often marginalized in the 19th-century women's suffrage movement.
Women have been been demanding better pockets since before they were granted suffrage.
Hamilton will stay on the front, while the picture of the Treasury Department Building on the back will be replaced with an image of a 218 women's suffrage march that ended at that building, along with portraits of five suffrage leaders.
So constitutional female suffrage represented an ominous new world for male legislators disinclined to support policy positions endorsed by the powerful national suffrage organization, renamed after the passage of the 19th Amendment as the National League of Women Voters (NLWV).
The result is those suffrage tableaus that keep popping up in the media today.
It is naive to suggest that universal suffrage will solve all Hong Kong's problems.
In the decades that followed, women's suffrage overlapped with abolition and the Civil War.
China bristles at dissent, however, especially over issues such as demands for universal suffrage.
Hong Kong's democratic activists argued that this would fall short of genuine universal suffrage.
In a 2009 essay, Thiel observed that women's suffrage was incompatible with capitalist democracy.
The color white has been tied to women's political empowerment since the suffrage movement.
Elections were the norm since the late 19th century (though usually with restricted suffrage).
But wasn&apost the suffrage movement created in part for -- to create the prohibition?
"It's time to let Hong Kong people have democracy and universal suffrage," said Wong.
It is the nomination committee charged with nominating candidates for election by universal suffrage.
On both sides of the Atlantic, the suffrage and labor movements were intimately entwined.
But she remained a central player in both the antislavery and women's suffrage movement.
Be inspired by your elders If your grandmother fought for women's suffrage, that's inspiring.
Qatar established a municipal council with elected members early in 85033 under universal suffrage.
They also saw an opportunity to carefully choreograph and sell an image of suffrage.
The writer is the author of "Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers."
Pro-suffrage groups were not the only ones using maps to promote their cause.
She galvanized working-class women to fight for suffrage and battled for tenants' rights.
Vote for woman suffrage, because it is part of the great struggle toward democracy.
Demonstrators' demands have increased to include an investigation of the police and universal suffrage.
African-American women were written out of the history of the woman suffrage movement.
This power had been widely recognized during the lengthy movement to secure female suffrage.
The industry strengthened its clout by funding the campaigns of members of Congress, who turned around and obliged the industry by keeping both the prohibition amendment and woman suffrage amendment stranded in committee; the suffrage amendment was buried in Congress for 42 years.
Leaders of the women's suffrage movement will appear on the back of the $21 bill.
Leaders of the women's suffrage movement will appear on the back of the $10 bill.
India is almost unique in having adopted universal suffrage while it was still very poor.
A banner demanding "true universal suffrage" was hung on a different mountaintop on Tuesday morning.
Then in 1910, a Women's Day was established to support the fight for universal suffrage.
It decided against both options, prizing universal suffrage and political inclusiveness over any other consideration.
In 1913, supporters for women's suffrage donned costumes depicting Columbia, the female personification of America.
It's the color activists used during women's suffrage to symbolize the purity of their movement.
They also gathered to talk political activism and justice reform, and pushed for women's suffrage.
This "Much Ado" is set in the era of World War I and women's suffrage.
Among the protesters' demands are universal suffrage and an independent investigation into alleged police brutality.
The struggle between male abolitionists and women's suffrage campaigners came into focus 150 years ago.
Lacking universal suffrage, many Hongkongers don't feel their voices are being represented in the government.
In October, she marked her absentee ballot for Hillary Clinton, 96 years after women's suffrage.
Some of them shouted "I want real universal suffrage" as they were being taken away.
Only 0003 women had showed up for the city's first suffrage parade seven years earlier.
If the woman's suffrage movement challenged certain power structures, it benefited from and reaffirmed others.
One woman who campaigned for suffrage wanted a vote to put an end to immigration.
That sounds like a pre-suffrage existence, in which women's inalienable political rights were denied.
It's debatable how many of the men who supported suffrage were actually "used" by women.
By 1916, even President Woodrow Wilson had been persuaded by his daughters to support suffrage.
The protest would mark five years since Beijing ruled out universal suffrage for Hong Kong.
Fawcett formed the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, the largest association of its kind.
EST: President Trump signs the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act in the Oval Office.
Russia extended full suffrage to women in 1917, three years before the United States did.
But imagine if 150 years ago we had taken a longer step toward universal suffrage.
Washington, DC is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women achieving suffrage in the United States.
Soon she was deemed too militant by the National American Woman Suffrage Association and expelled.
From women's suffrage to the civil right movements, protest helped shine a light on injustice.
It was 21907, a challenging year for Susan B. Anthony and the women's suffrage movement.
But she was always optimistic: "Woman suffrage is bound to come," she wrote in 1896.
But a good number of women who railed against alcohol's evils shrank from women's suffrage.
New York's law predated the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women's suffrage nationally, by three years.
In Washington, D.C. the National Museum of American History will present "Creating Icons: How We Remember Women's Suffrage," with artifacts from 1919 and 1920 donated by the National American Women Suffrage Association, the precursor to the League of Women Voters (Opens March 6; free).
What's more, the women's suffrage movement was at times explicitly racist and often excluded black women.
Another defendant, Raphael Wong, said while pleading not guilty to one charge: "I want universal suffrage".
"General" Rosalie Jones earned her nickname by leading the "Suffrage Army" in marches across the US.
Also disqualified was Edward Yiu, who swore in his oath to "fight for genuine universal suffrage".
Her failure to win the election only deepens the parallels with the struggle for women's suffrage.
Yet neither the sex imbalance nor the anniversary of women's suffrage quite explains the bronze mania.
In 2001 voter turnout reached its lowest level since the beginning of universal suffrage, at 59.4%.
The holiday began in 1971, when Congress officially declared August 26 a celebration of women's suffrage.
Then a period of conflict and social upheaval led to universal suffrage and education for all.
Protesters have five core demands, which include universal suffrage and an independent inquiry into police behavior.
Those women are surely thinking of Anthony's legendary campaign for suffrage, and who can blame them?
During his time in office, he supported child welfare and education as well as women's suffrage.
In 1909, the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women borrowed the property for a suffrage outing.
There are versions that talk about temperance, about women's suffrage, about presidential campaigns, including Abraham Lincoln's.
The president's response to the massacres in Louisiana was to blame whites who supported black suffrage.
At the same time, The Times's anti-suffrage editorial page did little to hide its condescension.
On Sunday evening, the couple will attend a reception celebrating the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage.
Monday's event at the university celebrated 100 years of women's suffrage, according to the Daily Iowan.
There was widespread resistance to black male suffrage, which had been guaranteed by the 15th amendment.
So what happened that so many women found it acceptable to march for suffrage in 1915?
Fara, who studied physics at Oxford, did not venture lightly into writing about suffrage and science.
The historian Susan Schulten writes about the crooked path of women's suffrage in our Opinion Section.
While ratification would require another year, female suffrage had won its greatest and most permanent victory.
The idea that we should like our politicians predates women's suffrage, let alone women in politics.
He drew criticism for backing a conservative proposal to select the city's leader without universal suffrage.
And regardless of the partisan effects, universal suffrage just should not be a partisan issue. Gymnastics.
By the 20th century, the amendment favored by suffrage organizations was modeled on the 15th Amendment.
Mr. Leigh's "Peterloo" revisits the 1819 suffrage demonstration that was brutally quashed by the British government.
"Literal people may ask, Why, then, does not woman have the right of suffrage?" it stated.
This next iteration of the movement also benefited from a vast network of suffrage-focused media.
Thirty-five years later, the American Women's Trade Union launched a successful campaign for women's suffrage.
It took the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to finally secure black women's full suffrage.
Women and men drew examples from the historical likes of Rosa Parks and the suffrage movement.
It has one of the most well-preserved collections of women's suffrage posters in the country.
Protesters have set out five demands, including an investigation into alleged police brutality and universal suffrage.
Protesters have set out five demands, including an investigation into alleged police brutality and universal suffrage.
Police are just a chess used by the government, what's more important is the universal suffrage.
"The high turnout rate ... definitely reflects Hong Kong people's hope for genuine universal suffrage," he said.
"The high turnout rate...definitely reflects Hong Kong people's hope for genuine universal suffrage," he said.
The demands from protesters have widened since June and now include a call for universal suffrage.
They played a huge role in suffrage and the overall advancement of women in this country.
The story takes in politics, the long and painful battle for women's suffrage, and much else.
This concern agitates toward an expansion of suffrage and toward resisting efforts to suppress the vote.
President, what will you do for Woman Suffrage?" and "How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?
It took the civil rights movement of the 1960s to finally secure black women's full suffrage.
Mind you, this was still just suffrage for white males, but remember that this was 1841.
Gordon helped form the California Woman Suffrage Society in 1870, and later served as its president.
In Belgium, compulsory voting was introduced alongside universal suffrage as a way to avoid vote-buying.
The third current, of course, was feminism, and the beginning of the fight for women's suffrage.
Section 4 of this same suffrage article directed the legislature to "enact the necessary laws to exclude from ... the right of suffrage, all persons convicted of bribery, perjury, larceny, or of infamous crime" — the same crimes the legislature had recently recognized and expanded through the Black Code.
In 1894, a white woman at a meeting of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association complained that New York had become "asylum for the trash of all nations" and argued that women's suffrage ought to be carefully restricted to keep undesirable women out of the ballot box.
Leaders of mainstream suffrage organizations kept these "others" out of sight for, they would say, "tactical" reasons.
Thus, the first state to grant women's suffrage also became the first state headed by a woman.
Pelosi, clad in white as an homage to women's suffrage, shook her head and pursed her lips.
Her speeches honored women's suffrage and urged women to make active use of their new political citizenship.
By that he meant more than just parliamentary democracy with its principle of elections and wide suffrage.
The People's History Museum acquired an embroidered banner used as a backdrop for Emmeline Pankhurst's suffrage speeches.
They have also called for Lam to stop labelling protesters "rioters" and to introduce genuine universal suffrage.
Its usage spiked after women's suffrage, and by the 1930s the insult had overtaken the zoological term.
Marston would go on to use iconography from the suffrage movement as symbolism in his comic strips.
The connection between the color white and women's political empowerment has its roots in the suffrage movement.
A candidate of the Equal Rights Party, Woodhull was an unconventional reformer and champion of female suffrage.
It was a suffrage movement, um, civil rights movement, all these movements were multi-cultural, multi-racial.
They also plan to implement major exhibitions on women's citizenship and suffrage, and to distribute relevant grants.
It was large-scale movements that gave us women's suffrage, the Civil Rights Law and gay marriage.
Abolitionism, woman's suffrage, anti-colonialism, and labor rights were all, in essence, calls for attention to suffering.
Reformers in the Progressive Era passed universal suffrage for women and mandated the direct election of senators.
However, due to the Democratic obstructionism, it was not until 1920 that woman was granted universal suffrage.
But, another key tenet of the so-called Basic Law is democratically electing leaders through universal suffrage.
While Wyoming enacted partial suffrage for women beginning in 1869, it didn't become a state until 1890.
Election Day saw a steady flow of pilgrims to the gravesite of suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony.
Nobody could agree on how many people marched in the great Fifth Avenue suffrage parade of 2470.
And those 23 marchers were the kinds of women other suffrage supporters considered militant and shockingly unrefined.
A replica of a mobile wagon filled with distributable suffrage ephemera is in the third, transitional gallery.
To the Editor: Brent Staples brings to light a significant and sadly overlooked aspect of suffrage history.

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