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[66] [67] Other suffragists pointed out that it was short-sighted of Georgia to reject women's suffrage. [68] Anti-suffragist Mildred Rutherford was the only one to speak against women's suffrage. [68] By July 7, members of the House tried to table Jackson's rejection bill and the bill in Senate faced the same fate later in the month. [69]
Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw (born 1864) was a British Suffragette and writer. She was twice arrested and she was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal.She later set out on a caravan journey in the 1920s to cross America from California to New York.
The Georgia Federation of Labor endorses women's suffrage. [3] Georgia creates white primaries. [9] 1901. November: GWSA holds their annual convention. [3] 1902. Women in Atlanta petition the local government to vote in municipal elections, but they are rejected. [3] November: GWSA holds their annual convention in Atlanta at the Universalist ...
I will not play by its rules," vowed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, who has been on hunger strike in a Georgian jail for 25 days. The founder of two news websites in Georgia, her health is declining ...
Former slave, Georgia's first African-American Catholic nun [56] Louise Frederick Hays (1881–1951) 2004 Historian, director Georgia Department of Archives and History [57] Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863–1962) 2004 Social activist [58] Sarah McLendon Murphy (1892–1954) 2004 Children's activist [59] Emily Barnelia Woodward (1885–1970) 2004 ...
Shatakshee Ramesh Dhongde [1] is an associate professor at the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology.She has provided research papers to the several institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER).
Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 – March 5, 1945) [1] was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was convicted of capital murder of a white man, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945. [2] Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution. [3] [2]
Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state) (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of women in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.