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On June 30, W. J. Bush introduced a women's suffrage bill to the Georgia Senate. [48] The first women's suffrage speech given in the House happened on July 6 when Whiteside spoke in front of the assembly. [47] On July 7, 1914 more women testified about women's suffrage in front of the Georgia House Constitutional Amendment Committee. [49]
Despite the hard work by suffragists in Georgia, the state continued to reject most efforts to pass equal suffrage. In 1917, Waycross, Georgia allowed women to vote in primary elections and in 1919 Atlanta granted the same. Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment. Women in Georgia still had to wait to vote statewide after ...
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. [57] 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. [58]
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
1887: In Kansas, women win the right to vote in municipal elections. [3] 1887: Rhode Island becomes the first eastern state to vote on a women's suffrage referendum, but it does not pass. [3] 1888–1889: Wyoming had already granted women voting and suffrage since 1869–70; now they insist that they maintain suffrage if Wyoming joins the Union.
Susan B. Anthony casts her first vote to test whether the 14th Amendment would be interpreted broadly to guarantee women the right to vote. She is convicted of "unlawful voting."
[202] [203] It was the first women's rights conference held outside of New York and only women were allowed to speak or vote during the convention. [ 202 ] [ 204 ] One attendee of the convention, John Allen Campbell , later went onto to grant women equal suffrage in Wyoming . [ 204 ]