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John Pierpont spoke about the early rights of New Jersey women to vote during the Women's Rights Convention in Rochester in 1853. [38] A petition for changing the laws of the state to declare that women and men were equal under the law was given to the state legislature by Henry Lafetra , a Monmouth Assemblyman in 1854. [ 39 ]
Many New Jersey women attend the Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester in 1852. [9] 1853. John Pierpont discusses the early voting rights of women in New Jersey at the Women's Rights Convention in Rochester. [10] 1854. Henry Lafetra petitions the state legislature to declare women and men equal under the law. [11] 1857
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [26] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [27] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote. 1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced. It says, "Men and ...
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Veronica McGrogan, a 50-year-old mom from Bloomfield, NJ, wore a costume from the dystopian Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale” to vote Tuesday.
It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [56] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. [57]