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Montana suffragists campaign for Votes for Women, November 2, 1914. The women's suffrage movement in Montana started while it was still a territory. The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was an early organizer that supported suffrage in the state, arriving in 1883.
In the years that followed, women battled for full, equal suffrage, which culminated in a year-long campaign in 1914 when they became one of eleven states with equal voting rights for most women. Montana ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on August 2, 1919 and was the thirteenth state to ratify. Native American women voters did not have equal ...
Utah: In Beynon v. St. George-Dixie Lodge 1743, [305] the Utah Supreme Court ruled that while Freedom of Association allowed the Elks to remain a men-only organization, "the Elks may not avail itself of the benefits of a liquor license and the license's concomitant state regulation" as long as it violated the Utah State Civil Rights Act.
Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [60] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [63] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [65]
A committee called Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights, led by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana, announced it had collected about 117,000 signatures of registered voters — far more ...
Rankin returned to Montana and rose through the ranks of suffrage organizations, becoming the president of the Montana Women's Suffrage Association and the national field secretary of NAWSA. [14] In February 1911, she became the first woman to speak before the Montana legislature, arguing in support of enfranchisement for women in her home ...
An initiative to ask voters if they want to protect the right to a pre-viability abortion in Montana's constitution has enough signatures to appear on the November ballot, supporters said Friday.
A reproductive-rights group in Montana has submitted signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights on the ballot in November. Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights ...