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Let Ohio Women Vote postcard. Women's rights issues in Ohio were put into the public eye in the early 1850s. Women inspired by the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention created newspapers and then set up their own conventions, including the 1850 Ohio Women's Rights Convention which was the first women's right's convention outside of New York and the first ...
November 3: The 2nd Ohio women's suffrage amendment is rejected. [7] 1915. The Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (OWSA) invites NAWSA and the Congressional Union (CU) to set up offices in Ohio. [15] 1916. June 6: The Municipal Suffrage Amendment in East Cleveland passes with 426 votes, allowing women to vote in city elections. [42]
Newbury Women's Suffrage Political Club. [9] Ohio Men's League for Equal Suffrage, created in February 1912. [10] Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (OWSA), founded in 1885 in Painesville. [11] Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), first met in Ravenna on May 25, 1853. [12] Political Equality Club of Lima. [13] Shelby Equal Franchise Association ...
“Learning about the Black Friday of 1910 changed my perspective on suffragettes. They weren’t just early feminists, but genuine, certified badasses.”
The week of 27 February 1909. [17] Bad weather dampened the activities, which included selling paper, flowers, fruit and chocolates on the street. Some supporters donated their week's wages, others walked instead of using a bus or tram and donated the money they saved, [18] one man proposed to "go without his cigars for a week" and donate the ten shillings he would save, and a woman offered to ...
1910: Emulating the grassroots tactics of labor activists, the Women's Political Union organizes America's first large-scale suffrage parade, which is held in New York City. [3] 1910: Washington grants women the right to vote. [20] 1911: California grants women suffrage. [6] 1911: In New York City, 3,000 people march for women's suffrage. [6]
In New York in 1912, suffragists organized a twelve-day, 170-mile "Hike to Albany" to deliver suffrage petitions to the new governor. In 1913 the suffragist "Army of the Hudson" marched 250 miles from New York to Washington in sixteen days, gaining national publicity. [216]
California, Illinois, New York, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington all formed groups by 1900. [54] Ohio formed an anti suffrage group, the Ohio Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1902. [55] The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was founded in 1897, and by 1908 it had over 90 members. [56]