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Suffragists were successful in lobbying the Republican Party of California to include support for suffrage in their platform. The Democratic Party of California did not include an endorsement for suffrage in their platform that year. [29] Selina Solomons founded the Votes for Women club in San Francisco. This club encouraged working class women ...
Despite two-thirds of both the California State Senate and California State Assembly voting to put the measure on the ballot, it failed 45-55 percentage-wise (110,355 Yes votes and 137,099 No votes. [14])Some suffragists believed the power of the liquor lobby was the reason for the defeat as it was assumed women voters would vote for temperance ...
An earlier attempt to enfranchise women had been rejected by California voters in 1896, [2] but in 1911 California became the sixth U.S. state to adopt the reform. [3] Nine years later in 1920, women's suffrage was constitutionally recognized at the federal level by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Votes for Women pennant
“Learning about the Black Friday of 1910 changed my perspective on suffragettes. They weren’t just early feminists, but genuine, certified badasses.”
1913: Illinois grants municipal and presidential but not state suffrage to women. [6] 1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only. [3] 1913: The Senate votes on a women's suffrage amendment, but it does not pass. [3]
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