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The first women's suffrage group was created in 1855 in Earlville, Illinois by Susan Hoxie Richardson. The Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), later renamed the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), was created by Mary Livermore in 1869. This group held annual conventions and petitioned various governmental bodies in Illinois for ...
Naomi Talbert Anderson attended the first Illinois women's suffrage convention in 1869 and advocated for Black women in the suffrage movement. [5] Prudence Crandall, a white teacher and suffragist who was forced out of Connecticut for teaching African-American students, was an early supporter of Black women's suffrage in Illinois. [1]
Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society. [7] Decatur Women's Suffrage Club, formed in 1888. [8] Democratic Club of Chicago, formed in 1900. [6] Earlville Suffrage Association, formed in 1855. [9] Ella Flagg Young Club. [5] Illinois Equal Franchise Society. [10] Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. [11] Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs ...
1861–1865: The American Civil War.Most suffragists focus on the war effort, and suffrage activity is minimal. [3]1866: The American Equal Rights Association, working for suffrage for both women and African Americans, is formed at the initiative of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
The Illinois Women Remonstrants, a loosely organized group led by Caroline Fairfield Corbin, was established in 1886. Despite Illinois passing school suffrage for women in 1891, the scope of this measure was limited due to contested interpretations and repeated challenges in the Illinois Supreme Court. [2]
The pro-suffrage side finally secured a women's suffrage amendment, and Kansas became the eighth state to allow for full suffrage for women. [169] Suffrage was passed in Kansas largely spurred by a speech, the first Kansas state resolution endorsing woman's suffrage, made by Judge Granville Pearl Aikman at a Republican state convention. [ 170 ]
Colorado passes full women's suffrage. [23] 1896. Women in Utah regain their right to vote. [30] [28] Grandfather clauses are enacted in Louisiana in order to disenfranchise black voters. [31] Women's suffrage is won in Idaho. [28] 1899. The right to vote in the territory of Hawaii is restricted to English and Hawaiian speaking men and the ...