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Low voter turnout among white women voters in Alabama was blamed by political researchers on a general "disinterest" in politics among that demographic. [39] However Minnie Steckel discovered in her 1937 study of Alabama women voters that white women were disproportionately affected by the poll tax. [40] Black women were also affected by the ...
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama. Women's suffrage in Alabama starts in the late 1860s and grows over time in the 1890s. Much of the women's suffrage work stopped after 1901, only to pick up again in 1910. Alabama did not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment until 1953 and African-Americans and women were affected by poll taxes and ...
The McCall Library at the University of South Alabama has the records of the local Mobile chapter of the League of Women Voters over the period of 1956 to 1987. [4] On May 23, 1955, twenty-four individuals met for the first meeting of the League of Woman Voters of Mobile at the Mobile Public Library, and the Chapter achieved provisional ...
One of the enduring truths of American politics is that women tend to be more liberal than men. A majority of women have supported the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1996.
[272] [273] [274] Media outlets routinely refused to give feminist issues coverage and often recharacterized reform efforts as men's issues. [275] Women and people of color in the South were not apathetic in the fight for voting rights, [276] although historians and political scientists before the 21st century often characterized Southern women ...
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The Alabama Supreme Court ruling showed the far-reaching consequences those sorts of policies could have for families, and the political difficulties Republicans still face in coming up with a way ...
The Democratic Party dominated politics in every Southern state. For nearly 100 years, local and state elections in Alabama were decided in the Democratic Party primary, with generally only token Republican challengers running in the General Election. Republicans ran a token candidate in every Alabama gubernatorial election except for 1930 and ...