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Lillian Exum Clement (1894–1925) – first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any state legislature in the Southern United States. [1] T. Adelaide Goodno (1858–1931) – suffragist; president, North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union. [2] [3]
After another 16 years, Florida and South Carolina passed the necessary votes to ratify in 1969, followed two years later by Georgia, [276] Louisiana and North Carolina. [275] Mississippi did not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment until 1984, sixty four years after the law was enacted nationally. [277]
The movement protests many wide-ranging issues under the blanket claim of unfair treatment, discrimination, and adverse effects of government legislation on the citizens of North Carolina. The protests in North Carolina launched a grassroots social justice movement that, in 2014, spread to Georgia and South Carolina, and then to other U.S ...
(The Center Square) – With 292 ballots in question and the difference of votes counted 734, the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Friday voted to dismiss remaining protests by ...
1861–1865: The American Civil War.Most suffragists focus on the war effort, and suffrage activity is minimal. [3]1866: The American Equal Rights Association, working for suffrage for both women and African Americans, is formed at the initiative of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright (1851–1929) – founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party; Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association; Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) – organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representation
Women's suffrage finally came to South Carolina through the Nineteenth Amendment after the amendment was passed by Congress in 1919. South Carolina accepted the implications of the Nineteenth Amendment, but at the same time passed a law excluding women from jury duty within the state. South Carolina finally ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in ...
Helen Morris Lewis was elected president of the association. The following year she attended the National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, representing North Carolina, [7] and returned in 1896 when the meeting was held in Washington, D. C. [8] She also spoke to the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage during that ...