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Isabella Beecher Hooker was the leading force in the CWSA and led the suffrage movement in that state for the rest of the century. [83] [77] The New England Woman Suffrage Association organized affiliated state suffrage societies in most New England states except for Connecticut. [84] The CWSA recorded a membership of 288 in 1871. [83]
The league began publishing Virginia Suffrage News in 1914. [1] The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia's membership grew from about 100 members in its first year to more than 15,000 by 1917. By 1919, with 32,000 members, it was the largest political organization in the state of Virginia, and perhaps the largest state association in the South. [1 ...
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The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial is a monument to American suffragists.The memorial is located in Lorton, Virginia's Occoquan Regional Park and stands in close ...
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1909. [5] Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1912. [6] Newport News Equal Suffrage League. [5] Virginia Beach National Woman's Party. [7] Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1907. [8] Virginia Suffrage Association (formerly Virginia Suffrage Society) formed ...
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).
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. 'Free the Nipple' movement: Women can now legally ...
Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.