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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.
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [27] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [28] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [28] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [14] 1913
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]
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote. 1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced. It says, "Men and ...
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 early ...
Netherlands (women gain the right to vote in an election, having been given the right to stand in elections in 1917) New Zealand (women gain the right to stand for election into parliament; right to vote for Members of Parliament since 1893) New Brunswick (Canadian province) (limited to voting. Women's right to stand for office protected in 1934)
All states that were successful in securing full voting rights for women before 1920 were located in the West. [13] [25] A federal amendment intended to grant women the right to vote was introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time in 1878 by Aaron A. Sargent, a Senator from California who was a women's suffrage advocate. [26]
The Amendment passed nationally and Georgia women gained the right to vote in 1920. [183] However, black women, as well as black men, continued to face substantial barriers designed to prevent black Americans from voting until the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 enforced their constitutional rights.