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t. e. Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [ 2] The demand for women's suffrage began to gather ...
National Society for Women's Suffrage – Britain's first large suffrage organization, founded in 1867 by Lydia Becker. Women's Franchise League – major British group created in 1889 by Emmeline Pankhurst. Women's Freedom League – British group founded in 1907 by 70 members of the Women's Social and Political Union in a breakaway following ...
The National Woman Suffrage Association ( NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was created after the women's rights movement split over the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which would in effect extend ...
Jane Arthur (1827–1907) – educationalist, feminist and activist; campaigned for women's suffrage. Margaret Ashton (1856–1937) – suffragist, local politician, pacifist. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) – politician, socialite, first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
The main group that pressed for women's suffrage in Indonesia was the Dutch Vereeninging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (VVV-Women's Suffrage Association), founded in the Netherlands in 1894. VVV tried to attract Indonesian members, but had very limited success because the leaders of the organization had little skill in relating to even the educated ...
The National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
The American Woman Suffrage Association ( AWSA) was a single-issue national organization formed in 1869 to work for women's suffrage in the United States. The AWSA lobbied state governments to enact laws granting or expanding women's right to vote in the United States. Lucy Stone, its most prominent leader, began publishing a newspaper in 1870 ...
National Society for Women's Suffrage – Britain's first large suffrage organization, founded in 1867 by Lydia Becker. Women's Franchise League – major British group created in 1889 by Emmeline Pankhurst. Women's Freedom League – British group founded in 1907 by 70 members of the Women's Social and Political Union in a breakaway following ...