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[66] [67] Other suffragists pointed out that it was short-sighted of Georgia to reject women's suffrage. [68] Anti-suffragist Mildred Rutherford was the only one to speak against women's suffrage. [68] By July 7, members of the House tried to table Jackson's rejection bill and the bill in Senate faced the same fate later in the month. [69]
The impetus for formation of the committee was a rising concern about hunger and malnutrition in the United States. It had been brought to public attention by the 1967 field trip of Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark to see emaciated children in Cleveland, Mississippi, [1] by the 1967 broadcast of the CBS News special Hunger in America, [2] and by the 1968 publication of Citizens ...
In January 1964, President Johnson gave Sargent Shriver the task of developing a bill to wage the war against poverty in the United States. The bill was presented to Congress in March, 1964. It was introduced in the House by Representative Phil M. Landrum, (D Georgia), and in the Senate by Senator Pat McNamara, (D Michigan). In the Senate, the ...
Despite the hard work by suffragists in Georgia, the state continued to reject most efforts to pass equal suffrage. In 1917, Waycross, Georgia allowed women to vote in primary elections and in 1919 Atlanta granted the same. Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment. Women in Georgia still had to wait to vote statewide after ...
Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state) This page was last edited on 7 July 2023, at 00:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state) (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of women in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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