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Maggie L. Walker, an African American businesswoman and the first woman in the United States to establish and serve as president of a bank, [12] [13] chaired a committee of female activists that held mass meetings to encourage black women to vote. [14] Virginia women were only given one month to register to vote before the November 1920 ...
The Virginia colony passes a law incorporating the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery, regardless of their father's race or status. [2] 1664. Maryland declares that any Englishwoman who married a slave had to live as a slave of her husband's master. [3] 1718
Virginia Congressional Union booth at the Virginia State Fair in 1916 This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Virginia. While there were some very early efforts to support women's suffrage in Virginia, most of the activism for the vote for women occurred early in the 20th century. The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was formed in 1909 and the Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for ...
Virginia colony: The Virginia colony passed a law incorporating the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery, regardless of their father's race or status. [58] This was in contradiction to English common law for English subjects, which based a child's status on that of the father ...
United States – Utah Territory passed a law granting women's suffrage. Utah women citizens voted in municipal elections that spring and a general election on August 1, beating Wyoming women to the polls. [28] The women's suffrage law was later repealed as part of the Edmunds–Tucker Act in 1887.
Spain: Fuero del Trabajo of 1938 was the law which prevented married women from working in workshops or factories in Spain. The goal was to make women free to tend to their husband's needs inside their household. [171] Uruguay: Abortion was made illegal in Uruguay in 1938. 1939. Sweden: Ban against firing a woman for marrying or having children ...
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Women's rights activism in Canada during the 19th and early 20th centuries focused on increasing women's role in public life, with goals including women's suffrage, increased property rights, increased access to education, and recognition of women as "persons" under the law. [124]