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The fight for women's suffrage in New Mexico was incremental and had the support of both Hispanic and Anglo women suffragists. When New Mexico was a territory, women had the right to vote in school board elections. When New Mexico created its state constitution in 1910, it continued to allow women to vote in school elections, but it was nearly ...
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in New Mexico. Women's suffrage in New Mexico first began with granting women the right to vote in school board elections and was codified into the New Mexico State Constitution, written in 1910. In 1912, New Mexico was a state, and suffragists there worked to support the adoption of a federal women's ...
Her commitment to working with women's groups and lobbying legislators for suffrage helped her rise in the leadership ranks in the state Congressional Union (CU). The CU wanted to include Hispanics in its campaign to ensure New Mexico ratified the Nineteenth Amendment , and Otero-Warren's activism made her an ideal candidate to lead the CU and ...
" 'Disenfranchisement is a Disgrace': Women and Politics in New Mexico, 1900-1940" (PDF). New Mexico Historical Review. 56 (1): 5–35. NWHP (2017). "How Women Won the Vote" (PDF). National Women's History Project. Young, Janine A. (May 11, 1984). 'For the Best Interests of the Community': The Origins and Impact of the Women's Suffrage Movement ...
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 ]
Aurora R. Lucero was born in New Mexico on February 8, 1894. [1] She was the eldest of seven children born to Julianita Romero and Antonio J. Lucero, who would serve as New Mexico's first Secretary of State from 1912 to 1916. [2] Her family was wealthy and politically well-connected. [3]
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Women's suffrage in New Mexico; T. Timeline of women's suffrage in New Mexico This page was last edited on 19 October 2023, at 18:53 (UTC). ...