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Anti-suffragists began to mobilize against the 1915 women's suffrage amendment starting in May 1915. 128 Lillian Feickert, president of the NJWSA accused anti-suffragists of misrepresenting her speech, given in 1915. 151 When the women's suffrage amendment was lost in 1915, anti-suffragists celebrated. 131.
1915. May 6: A women's suffrage bill passes and is ready to go out to voter referendum. [66] August 7: The Suffrage Torch is handed to New Jersey activists on the tugboat, A.W. Smith, in the middle of the Hudson River. [67] August 13: NJWSA hosts an event in Orange to celebrate Stone and her tax protest.
[note 1] While women had the right to vote in several of the pre-revolutionary colonies in what would become the United States, after 1776, with the exception of New Jersey, all states adopted constitutions that denied voting rights to women. New Jersey's constitution initially granted suffrage to property-holding residents, including single ...
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns ...
Susan B. Anthony II (great-niece) Signature. Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age ...
Lillian Feickert. Lillian Ford Feickert (July 20, 1877 – January 21, 1945) was an American suffragist, New Jersey state political organizer, and the first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate. She served as the President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912 to 1920, and later helped organize the New Jersey ...
1868. Citizenship is guaranteed to all male persons born or naturalized in the United States by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights. November 3: The right of African American men to vote in Iowa is approved through a voter referendum.
Groups. Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey. [71] New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) is formed in 1912. [50] People. Anna Dayton (Trenton). [72] Georgiana Breese.