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An attempt to achieve equal franchise gained national attention when an envoy of 300 women, representing over 125,000 suffragettes, argued for women's suffrage with the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The Prime Minister agreed with their argument but "was obliged to do nothing at all about it" and so urged the women to "go on ...
The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group. It was established along with the International Monetary Fund at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. After a slow start ...
Both suffragettes and police spoke of a "Reign of Terror"; newspaper headlines referred to "Suffragette Terrorism". [45] One suffragette, Emily Davison, died under the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby on 4 June 1913. It is debated whether she was trying to pull down the horse, attach a suffragette scarf or banner to it, or commit suicide to ...
The women's suffrage law was later repealed as part of the Edmunds–Tucker Act in 1887. May 10, 1872, New York City: Equal Rights Party nominates Victoria C. Woodhull as their candidate for US President.
Fusae Ichikawa (1893–1981) – politician who founded the nation's first women's suffrage organization: the Women's Suffrage League of Japan, president of the New Japan Women's League; Shidzue KatÅ (1897–2001) – politician; Oku Mumeo (1895–1997) – co-founder of the New Women's Association who later served three terms in Japan's ...
On 10 October 2012, the Post Office, issued six commemorative stamps, titled 50th Anniversary of Women Suffrage, one each bearing the portrait of a notable woman who influenced women's suffrage in the Bahamas in the following denominations: [4] Mary Ingraham – 15¢ Georgianna Symonette (1902–1965) – 25¢ Mabel Walker (1902–1987) – 50¢
Universal suffrage was established in 1840, which meant that women could vote. Opposition resulted in a specific denial of women's suffrage in the 1852 constitution. Honduras: 1955 Hong Kong: 1949 Hungarian Republic: 1919 (partial) 1945 (full) After 1919 men could vote from the age of 24 while women only gained the right to vote from the age of 30.
Senator S.C. Pomeroy of Kansas introduces the federal woman’s suffrage amendment in Congress. Many early suffrage supporters, including Susan B. Anthony, remained single because, in the mid-1800s, married women could not own property in their rights and could not make legal contracts on their own behalf. The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified.