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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
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.
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 ...
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
Reproductive rights and access to abortion are a hot-button issue in the 2023 election for the New Jersey Legislature. Here's why
A New Jersey Democrat running for the US House in a closely watched district said recently she’s “not super worried” about biological men entering women’s locker rooms and is advocating ...
The case stands as a landmark in United States case law establishing the rights of informed consent and bodily integrity for pregnant women. New Jersey: The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Princeton's all-male eating clubs would have to open to women. [281] [282] [283] Hodgson v.