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Eminent Opinions on Woman Suffrage, San Francisco Call newspaper July 4, 1909. Historian Ronald Schaffer has noted the women's suffrage movement in California "is a story of slow building and initial defeat." [2] Starting the 1860s, a small number
Ellen Sargent supervised a petition drive on behalf of women's suffrage in northern California and Alice Moore McComas oversaw the petitions in southern California. [7] The first ballot measure to propose women's suffrage failed with only 44.6% support [6] [9] The founding of the Woman's Club of Palo Alto. [15] Lillian Harris Coffin; 1899:
An earlier attempt to enfranchise women had been rejected by California voters in 1896, [2] but in 1911 California became the sixth U.S. state to adopt the reform. [3] Nine years later in 1920, women's suffrage was constitutionally recognized at the federal level by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment prohibited ...
California Woman Suffrage Society; Congressional Union for Women Suffrage; Fannie Jackson Coppin Club [3] Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women. [4] National American Woman Suffrage Association; National Woman's Party [5] Political Equality Club of Alameda [6] Votes for Women Club [7] Women's Christian Temperance Union [8] Woman's Club of Palo ...
The California Supreme Court rules in favor of abortion rights after hearing an appeal from Dr. Leon Belous, who had been convicted of referring a woman to someone who could provide her with an illegal abortion; [114] California's abortion law was declared unconstitutional in People v.
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [27] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [28] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [28] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [14] 1913
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
Laura de Force Gordon (née Laura de Force; August 17, 1838 – April 5, 1907) was a California lawyer, newspaper publisher, and a prominent suffragette.She was the first woman to run a daily newspaper in the United States (the Stockton Daily Leader, 1874), and the second female lawyer admitted to practice in California.