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In 1915, Texas suffragists came within two votes in the Texas legislature of achieving an amendment to the state constitution giving women the vote. [395] In March 1918, suffragists led the effort to get women the vote in state primary elections. [395] In seventeen days, TESA and other suffrage organizations registered approximately 386,000 ...
The National Council of Women Voters (NCWV) was founded in 1911 to represent women in states where women's suffrage had been achieved. Initially those states were Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Washington. Some other states, including California, followed soon after. Emma Smith Devoe served as the NCWV's president throughout its nine-year ...
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Learn about the history of voting rights in America, including when women were allowed to vote and why voter access is still an important issue today. Skip to main content. Lifestyle. 24/7 help ...
Nevada and Montana women earn the right to vote. [22] 1917. Women in Arkansas earn the right to vote in primary elections. [22] Women in Rhode Island earn the right to vote in presidential elections. [27] Women in New York, Oklahoma, and South Dakota earn equal suffrage through their state constitutions. [27] 1918. Women in Texas earn the right ...
Women were allowed to vote on a local level for the first time in the Thessaloniki local elections, on December 14, 1930, where 240 women exercised their right to do so. [205] Women's turnout remained low, at only around 15,000 in the national local elections of 1934, despite women being a narrow majority of the population of 6.8 million. [205]
Western Australia (Australian state): Women were allowed to vote in Australia's first federal election, but there were racial restrictions. 1902 Australia : The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 gave all adult British subjects resident in Australia, including women, the right to vote at the federal level.