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A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2] Georgia removes property requirement for voting. [3]
Rose Danna Ruesch (1935): [72] First female lawyer in Morris County, New Jersey; Katherine Hayden: [73] First female President of the Morris County Bar Association, New Jersey; Marianne Espinosa: [74] First Hispanic American female to serve as a Judge of the Morris-Sussex vicinage; Dorothy Reeve: [75] First female lawyer in Ocean County, New Jersey
W. E. B. Du Bois publicly supported the 1915 New Jersey campaign, writing in The Crisis, "To say the woman is weaker than man is sheer rot: It is the same sort of thing we hear about the 'darker races' and 'lower classes.'" [118] Mary Church Terrell campaigned in New Jersey in October, urging black men to vote for the women's suffrage amendment ...
1992 – The Year of the Woman: Following 1991 hearings in which lawyer Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, record numbers of women are elected to ...
National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey. [8] New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League. [4] New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910. [2] New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC). [9] New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867. [10] Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898. [11]
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Pennsylvania. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Fifty Years Old and Proud of It: The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Looks Back to 1920 and on to the Future (PDF). Philadelphia: League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. Brown, Ira V. (April 1965). "The Woman's Rights Movement in Pennsylvania, 1848-1873". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 32 (2): 153–165.