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The Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, D.C., is named in honor of the poet Walt Whitman, who was a nurse in D.C. during the Civil War, and Mary Edwards Walker. [ 32 ] The Mary Walker Clinic at Fort Irwin National Training Center in California is named in honor of Walker.
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [27] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [28] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [28] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [14] 1913
The right to vote is the foundation of any democracy. Chief Justice Earl Warren, for example, wrote in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 555 (1964): "The right to vote freely for the candidate of one's choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government ...
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2]
A federal judge handed Latino and civil rights groups a victory when he struck down a provision in a Florida state law that would have barred noncitizens from registering voters in time for the ...
Here are four takeaways from the discussion: ‘Something is going to happen’ "We’re going into a very volatile situation, with the two candidates' (Trump and Biden) combined age at the end of ...
Doctor Mary Edwards Walker and a "Mrs. Harman" were seen in "male attire" actively passing back and forth between the audience and the stage. [53] Stanton spoke heatedly with a prepared speech against those who had established "an aristocracy of sex on this continent". [54] "If serfdom, peasantry, and slavery have shattered kingdoms, deluged ...
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alabama and its secretary of state on Friday, arguing that an effort to remove voters from state rolls was taking place too close to the Nov. 5 ...