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  2. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [56] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. [57]

  3. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8] 1890: A suffrage campaign loses in South Dakota. [6] 1893: After a campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for women's suffrage. [6] 1894: Despite 600,000 signatures, a petition for women's suffrage is ignored in New York. [6]

  4. Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage , in which cases women and men from certain socioeconomic classes or races were still unable to vote.

  5. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.

  6. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From 1775 until 1807, the state constitution in New Jersey permitted all persons worth fifty pounds who resided in the state for one year to vote; free black people and single women therefore had the vote until 1807, but not married women, as their property ownership was invariably limited.

  7. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [26] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [27] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913

  8. Speaker details how suffrage for women unfolded in United States

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    Mar. 31—Local professionals took part this week in a discussion at Northeastern State University about women's suffrage and how it has continued to affect American history.

  9. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966