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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.
Citizenship is granted to Native Americans who are willing to disassociate themselves from their tribe by the Dawes Act, making those males technically eligible to vote. Women in Washington lose the right to vote. [26] Women in Utah lose the right to vote under the Edmunds–Tucker Act. [27] Kansas women earn the right to vote in municipal ...
Women's rights to a public identity were restricted by the common law practice of coverture. [282] As women were not citizens in their own right and married women were required to assume the citizenship and residency requirements of their spouses, many women upon marriage had no voting rights.
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.
The NAWSA's movement marginalized many African-American women and through this effort was developed the idea of the "educated suffragist". [5] This was the notion that being educated was an important prerequisite for being allowed the right to vote. Since many African-American women were uneducated, this notion meant exclusion from the right to ...
By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was readopted and strengthened in 1970 ...
Vermont: Married women were granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4] Nebraska: Married women granted separate economy, trade licenses, and control over their earnings. [4] Florida: Married women were given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1882. Lindon v.
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.