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[109] Henry Blackwell, Stone's husband and an AWSA officer, published an open letter to Southern legislatures assuring them that if they allowed both African Americans and women to vote, "the political supremacy of your white race will remain unchanged" and "the black race would gravitate by the law of nature toward the tropics." [110]
1887: In Kansas, women win the right to vote in municipal elections. [3] 1887: Rhode Island becomes the first eastern state to vote on a women's suffrage referendum, but it does not pass. [3] 1888–1889: Wyoming had already granted women voting and suffrage since 1869–70; now they insist that they maintain suffrage if Wyoming joins the Union.
All Americans with Asian ancestry are allowed to vote through the McCarran Walter Act. [11] 1954. Native Americans living on reservations earn the right to vote in Maine. [45] [46] 1958. The provision in the North Dakota state constitution that required Native Americans to renounce their tribal affiliations two years before an election is ...
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during the two eras of activism in favor of women's rights. Some notable events:
White women in Alaska were able to vote in school board elections in 1904. [411] [412] Many white women's rights activists in the state were involved with the WCTU. [413] Cornelia Templeton Hatcher, an active WCTU member also worked towards women's suffrage in the state. [413] Lena Morrow Lewis also campaigned for women's suffrage in Alaska. [414]
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
History of Woman Suffrage is a book that was produced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922, it is a history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States.