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Early women's suffrage work in Alabama started in the 1860s. Priscilla Holmes Drake was the driving force behind suffrage work until the 1890s. Several suffrage groups were formed, including a state suffrage group, the Alabama Woman Suffrage Organization (AWSO).
Women's suffrage booth at the Alabama state fair in Birmingham in 1914. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama. Women's suffrage in Alabama starts in the late 1860s and grows over time in the 1890s. Much of the women's suffrage work stopped after 1901, only to pick up again in 1910.
The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817360108 .
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU), originally led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, separated from the NAWSA in 1913. At the same time, Belmont was funding Laura Clay's Southern States Woman's Suffrage Conference in Kentucky, because of her Alabama roots. [citation needed] Belmont then merged the Political Equality League into the CU.
Pritzker believes the decision is part of a broader, Republican-led push to "limit the freedoms that women have to make choices for themselves." Pritzker says Republicans are limiting women's ...
The cars of two Alabama women were seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners. The Supreme Court says they had no constitutional right to a preliminary hearing.
The New Women in Alabama: Social Reform and Suffrage, 1890–1920 (1992) Thomas, Mary Martha. Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War ...