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Low voter turnout among white women voters in Alabama was blamed by political researchers on a general "disinterest" in politics among that demographic. [39] However Minnie Steckel discovered in her 1937 study of Alabama women voters that white women were disproportionately affected by the poll tax. [40] Black women were also affected by the ...
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama. Women's suffrage in Alabama starts in the late 1860s and grows over time in the 1890s. Much of the women's suffrage work stopped after 1901, only to pick up again in 1910. Alabama did not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment until 1953 and African-Americans and women were affected by poll taxes and ...
By the late 1930s, individual white women working on abolishing poll taxes in Alabama, but not the organizations to which they belonged, recognized the benefit of black and white activists joining forces to increase their political agency. [183] Other women's groups participating in the early 1940s included the Alabama chapter of the ...
One of the enduring truths of American politics is that women tend to be more liberal than men. A majority of women have supported the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1996.
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In the state of Alabama, a faithless elector's vote is counted and not penalized. [44] [45] The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2020, to cast their votes for president and vice president. All 9 pledged electors from Alabama cast their votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The ...
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said Alabama cannot use conspiracy laws to prosecute people and groups who help women leave the state to obtain abortions. The Justice Department filed a ...
Political Power in Alabama (University of Georgia Press, 1995) Sellers, James B. The Prohibition Movement in Alabama, 1702–1943 1943. Thomas, Mary Martha. The New Women in Alabama: Social Reform and Suffrage, 1890–1920 (1992) Thomas, Mary Martha. Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War (1987)