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Let Ohio Women Vote postcard. Women's rights issues in Ohio were put into the public eye in the early 1850s. Women inspired by the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention created newspapers and then set up their own conventions, including the 1850 Ohio Women's Rights Convention which was the first women's right's convention outside of New York and the first ...
Women worked to create organizations and groups to influence politicians on women's suffrage. Several state constitutional amendments for women's suffrage did not pass. However, women in Ohio did get the right to vote in school board elections and in some municipalities before Ohio became the fifth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.
Newbury Women's Suffrage Political Club. [9] Ohio Men's League for Equal Suffrage, created in February 1912. [10] Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (OWSA), founded in 1885 in Painesville. [11] Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), first met in Ravenna on May 25, 1853. [12] Political Equality Club of Lima. [13] Shelby Equal Franchise Association ...
1913: Illinois grants municipal and presidential but not state suffrage to women. [6] 1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only. [3] 1913: The Senate votes on a women's suffrage amendment, but it does not pass. [3]
Suffrage was a preeminent goal of these conventions, no longer the controversial issue it had been at Seneca Falls only two years earlier. [61] At the first national convention Stone gave a speech that included a call to petition state legislatures for the right of suffrage. [62]
But, spokesman Ben Johnson did confirm to The Dispatch the university made the statement following protests on campus over the war in Gaza. Ohio State's statement comes just days after more than ...
Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright (1851–1929) – founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party; Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association; Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) – organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representation
Ohio State research scientist Sumaya Hamadmad sits on the spot where she was arrested April 25th during an Israel-Hamas war protest on the South Oval of Ohio State's campus. Sumaya Hamadmad felt ...