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With the advantages of cheap real estate, low taxes, right-to-work laws and a regulatory environment limiting government interference, the Atlanta metropolitan area became a national center of finance, insurance, and real estate companies, as well as the convention and trade show business.
The Georgia Federation of Labor endorses women's suffrage. [3] Georgia creates white primaries. [9] 1901. November: GWSA holds their annual convention. [3] 1902. Women in Atlanta petition the local government to vote in municipal elections, but they are rejected. [3] November: GWSA holds their annual convention in Atlanta at the Universalist ...
In 1909, women of Atlanta lobbied the city government for the municipal vote for women. [28] Women in Atlanta were paying taxes on more than $13,000,000 worth of real estate and personal property. [28] Despite the efforts of women to show that they were being taxed without being represented, the City of Atlanta rejected municipal women's ...
Governor Candler (just to left of center) with U.S. President William McKinley (to his right) reviewing the parade at the Atlanta Peace Jubilee, December 15, 1898. Candler was known as a conservative governor. While he established pensions for Confederate widows, he otherwise cut back both taxes and government expenditures.
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In 1898 the Charleston Woman's Improvement League was organized as a member of the National Association of Colored Women and suffrage was an important part of their work. [407] Though the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) had already included winning the franchise in its departmental structure, the West Virginia WCTU did not ...
Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist.She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought.
On January 1, the Massachusetts government enforces a law that allowed women to work a maximum of 54 hours instead of 56. Ten days later, affected workers discover that pay had been reduced along with the cut in hours. [64] 1915. The Supreme Court first considers the Expatriation Act of 1907 in the 1915 case MacKenzie v. Hare.