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The war served as a catalyst for suffrage extension in several countries, with women gaining the vote after years of campaigning partly in recognition of their support for the war effort, which further increased the pressure for suffrage in the U.S. [261] About half of the women in Britain had become enfranchised by January 1918, as had women ...
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 vote. This movement was prevalent in the South but eventually gained momentum in the North as well. [5]
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
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
"For Black women, our right to vote is only secured with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965," said Valethia Watkins, an associate professor of Africana studies at Howard University.
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.
Colorado granted partial voting rights that allowed women to vote in school board elections in 1893 and Idaho granted women suffrage in 1896. Beginning with Washington in 1910, seven more western states passed women's suffrage legislation, including California in 1911, Oregon , Arizona , and Kansas in 1912, Alaska Territory in 1913, and Montana ...
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.