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Low voter turnout among white women voters in Alabama was blamed by political researchers on a general "disinterest" in politics among that demographic. [39] However Minnie Steckel discovered in her 1937 study of Alabama women voters that white women were disproportionately affected by the poll tax. [40] Black women were also affected by the ...
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. Alabama did not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment until 1953 and African-Americans and women were affected by poll taxes and ...
By the late 1930s, individual white women working on abolishing poll taxes in Alabama, but not the organizations to which they belonged, recognized the benefit of black and white activists joining forces to increase their political agency. [183] Other women's groups participating in the early 1940s included the Alabama chapter of the ...
In the state of Alabama, a faithless elector's vote is counted and not penalized. [44] [45] The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2020, to cast their votes for president and vice president. All 9 pledged electors from Alabama cast their votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The ...
The Democratic Party dominated politics in every Southern state. For nearly 100 years, local and state elections in Alabama were decided in the Democratic Party primary, with generally only token Republican challengers running in the General Election. Republicans ran a token candidate in every Alabama gubernatorial election except for 1930 and ...
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Women in Alabama politics (4 C, 13 P) A. African-American people in Alabama politics (3 C, 8 P) C. Alabama Commissioners of Agriculture and Industries (9 P ...
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