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1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
[331] [332] Wendy Rouse writes, "Scholars have already begun 'queering' the history of the suffrage movement by deconstructing the dominant narrative that has focused on the stories of elite, white, upper-class suffragists.” [331] Susan Ware says, "To speak of 'queering the suffrage movement' is to identify it as a space where women felt free ...
United States – Utah Territory passed a law granting women's suffrage. Utah women citizens voted in municipal elections that spring and a general election on August 1, beating Wyoming women to the polls. [28] The women's suffrage law was later repealed as part of the Edmunds–Tucker Act in 1887.
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during two eras of activism. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US ...
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. [15]
After selling her home, British activist Emmeline Pankhurst travelled constantly, giving speeches throughout Britain and the United States. One of her most famous speeches, Freedom or death, was delivered in Connecticut in 1913. The suffrage movement was a broad one, made up of women and men with a wide range of views.
The Masculinist school is so-titled by Suffragette historian Sandra Stanley Holton because it is a male-constructed addition to the historiography of Suffragettes, depicting them as a women's political movement that was, by its existence, an aberration from traditional male politics which would have by itself overseen the granting of female ...
The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the United States. The federal government created its first drug policy with the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. The National Park Service was established under the Department of the Interior in 1916.