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When New Mexico created its state constitution in 1910, it continued to allow women to vote in school elections, but it was nearly impossible to modify the constitution for suffrage any further. Women in the state chose to pursue advocating for a federal women's suffrage amendment.
In 1912, New Mexico was a state, and suffragists there worked to support the adoption of a federal women's suffrage amendment to allow women equal suffrage. Even after white women earned the right to vote in 1920, many Native Americans were unable to vote in the state.
New York allows parolees to vote. [65] 2019. People convicted of a felony may vote in Nevada after release from prison. [65] Citizens on parole may vote in Colorado. [65] People convicted of a felony may vote in Oklahoma after serving their full sentence, including parole and other types of probation. [65]
The New Mexico Constitution has 24 Articles and has been amended more than 170 times; [5] by comparison, the U.S. Constitution has seven Articles and 27 amendments after over 230 years. [6] Amendments may be proposed by a majority vote of each house of the legislature and must then be submitted to the voters of the state for approval.
Virginia Minor (1824–1894) – co-founder and president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in Minor v. Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote. [94] Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer. [95]
Lucero-White Lea was one of six New Mexican women commended for fighting for women's right to vote in a memorial bill passed by the New Mexico legislature in February 2020 titled "Centennial Of 19th Amendment", along with Laura E. Frenger, Nina Otero-Warren, Ina Sizer Cassidy, and Julia Asplund. [14]
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
New Mexico obtained full suffrage as the federal amendment was ratified in 1920. [ 2 ] Otero-Warren believed that she could have an even greater role in advocating for Hispanics, particularly in regards to education, if she held a congressional seat.