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Women's rights to a public identity were restricted by the common law practice of coverture. [282] As women were not citizens in their own right and married women were required to assume the citizenship and residency requirements of their spouses, many women upon marriage had no voting rights.
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.
White women in Alaska were able to vote in school board elections in 1904. [411] [412] Many white women's rights activists in the state were involved with the WCTU. [413] Cornelia Templeton Hatcher, an active WCTU member also worked towards women's suffrage in the state. [413] Lena Morrow Lewis also campaigned for women's suffrage in Alaska. [414]
All Americans with Asian ancestry are allowed to vote through the McCarran Walter Act. [11] 1954. Native Americans living on reservations earn the right to vote in Maine. [45] [46] 1958. The provision in the North Dakota state constitution that required Native Americans to renounce their tribal affiliations two years before an election is ...
The convention easily approved the Declaration of Sentiments that had been introduced at the Seneca Falls Convention, including the controversial demand for women's right to vote. Two African American men, Frederick Douglass and William Cooper Nell, both of whom were ardent abolitionists, spoke in favor of women's rights at the Rochester ...
Wyoming was the first state in which women were able to vote, although it was a condition of the transition to statehood. Utah was the second territory to allow women to vote, but the federal Edmunds–Tucker Act of 1887 repealed woman's suffrage in Utah. Colorado was the first established state to allow women to vote on the same basis as men.
History tells us that matters like marriage equality, voting rights, abortion access and campaign finance are often adjudicated through the court system. Currently, the Supreme Court is made up of eight justices, the ninth seat vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February.
Vermont: Married women were granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4] Nebraska: Married women granted separate economy, trade licenses, and control over their earnings. [4] Florida: Married women were given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1882. Lindon v.