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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] 1914: Nevada grants women suffrage. [3] 1914: Montana grants women suffrage. [3]
British Raj Central Provinces became the 8th province in British India to grant suffrage to women. [64] Turkmen SSR (Soviet Union) Uruguay (women's suffrage is broadcast for the first time in 1927, in the plebiscite of Cerro Chato) 1928 United Kingdom (franchise made equal to that for men by the Representation of the People Act 1928) 1929
1920 Women are guaranteed the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution . In practice, the same restrictions that hindered the ability of non-white men to vote now also applied to non-white women.
The Justice Bell was taken to the first national convention of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (National Women's Party) in Washington, D.C. It was also present at the national suffrage convention in Chicago. [10] The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920. On September 25, 1920, the Justice Bell was honored at a celebration ...
Catt implemented what was known as the "society plan," a successful effort to recruit wealthy members of the women's club movement whose time, money and experience could help build the suffrage movement. [162] By 1914, women's suffrage was endorsed by the national General Federation of Women's Clubs. [163]
In 1920, the women's movement organized in the National Liberian Women's Social and Political Movement, who campaigned without success for women's suffrage, followed by the Liberia Women's League and the Liberian Women's Social and Political Movement, [137] and in 1946, limited suffrage was finally introduced for women of the privileged Libero ...
The women won, and Newsweek agreed to allow women to be reporters. [116] The day the claim was filed, Newsweek's cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by a woman who had been hired on a freelance basis since there were no female reporters at the magazine. [117]
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.