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1874: There is a referendum in Michigan on women's suffrage, but women's suffrage loses. [3] 1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3] 1878: A federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced for the first time by Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California.
The first state to grant women the right to vote had been Wyoming, [6] in 1869, followed by Utah [7] in 1870, Colorado in 1893, Idaho in 1896, Washington [8] in 1910, California [9] in 1911, Oregon [10] and Arizona [11] in 1912, Montana in 1914, North Dakota, New York, [12] and Rhode Island [13] in 1917, Louisiana, [14] Oklahoma, [15] and ...
Filipino women voted in a 1937 plebiscite for their right to vote; women first voted in local elections later that year. Pitcairn Islands: 1838 Poland: 1918 Portugal: 1911/1931/1976 With restrictions in 1911, later made illegal again until 1931 when it was reinstated with restrictions, [104] restrictions other than age requirements lifted in 1976.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
As of 4 a.m. Wednesday, Michigan saw 100,960 voters choose "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary, accounting for about 13.3% of the total vote share with over 98% of the estimated votes counted ...
These three generations of Black women activists — Mary-Pat Hector, 26; Melanie Campbell, 61; Judy Richardson, 80 — use different tactics and strategies, but all work to register communities ...
This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative. To that end, HuffPost Women has partnered with Rock The Vote, and more than 50 other women's media brands for a cross-brand effort to encourage and help women across the country to register to vote. Because, quite simply, #OurVoteCounts.
In March 1918, suffragists led the effort to get women the vote in state primary elections. [395] In seventeen days, TESA and other suffrage organizations registered approximately 386,000 Texas women to vote in the Democratic primary election in July 1918, which was the first time that women in Texas were able to vote. [395]