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By 1907 over five thousand women in California support suffrage. [20] California suffragists also used the press to advance the cause. The July 4, 1909 edition of the San Francisco Call featured editorials by these suffragists. [4] Mary Sperry, who was the president of the California Equal Suffrage Association, argued that politics has a direct ...
Suffragists were successful in lobbying the Republican Party of California to include support for suffrage in their platform. The Democratic Party of California did not include an endorsement for suffrage in their platform that year. [29] Selina Solomons founded the Votes for Women club in San Francisco. This club encouraged working class women ...
An earlier attempt to enfranchise women had been rejected by California voters in 1896, [2] but in 1911 California became the sixth U.S. state to adopt the reform. [3] Nine years later in 1920, women's suffrage was constitutionally recognized at the federal level by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .
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The week of 27 February 1909. [17] Bad weather dampened the activities, which included selling paper, flowers, fruit and chocolates on the street. Some supporters donated their week's wages, others walked instead of using a bus or tram and donated the money they saved, [18] one man proposed to "go without his cigars for a week" and donate the ten shillings he would save, and a woman offered to ...
The women marched nearly a mile along Broadway in Oakland to the site of the California State Republican Convention to demand California suffrage be added to the Republican platform (state Democratic and Labor parties had already done so). California Republicans would not add suffrage until their next state convention in 1909. [19]
[257] In the 1918 elections, despite the threat of Spanish flu, three additional states (Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Michigan) passed ballot initiatives to enfranchise women, and two incumbent senators (John W. Weeks of Massachusetts and Willard Saulsbury Jr. of Delaware) lost re-election campaigns due to their opposition to suffrage. [258] By ...
By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage. [9] Maryland passes a law to allow Jews to vote. [10] Maryland was the last state to remove religious restrictions for voting. [11]