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  2. List of New York (state) suffragists - Wikipedia

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    Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [ 18 ] Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes .

  3. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1910: Emulating the grassroots tactics of labor activists, the Women's Political Union organizes America's first large-scale suffrage parade, which is held in New York City. [3] 1910: Washington grants women the right to vote. [20] 1911: California grants women suffrage. [6] 1911: In New York City, 3,000 people march for women's suffrage. [6]

  4. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Territories on the frontier, eager to attract new settlers, also helped expand suffrage. [7] 1821. In 1821, the state of New York held a constitutional convention which removed property requirements for white male voters, but required that "persons of colour" own $250 worth of property, "over and above all debts," in order to vote. White male ...

  5. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In New York in 1912, suffragists organized a twelve-day, 170-mile "Hike to Albany" to deliver suffrage petitions to the new governor. In 1913 the suffragist "Army of the Hudson" marched 250 miles from New York to Washington in sixteen days, gaining national publicity. [215]

  6. List of American suffragists - Wikipedia

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    Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [40] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement. [41] [42]

  7. Suffragette - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist α (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. [4] The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. [4]

  8. Women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention in the United States in Seneca Falls, New York, was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The conference refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from the U.S. because of their sex.

  9. Voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under the Duke's Laws in colonial New York, suffrage did not require a religious test but was restricted to landholders. In Virginia , all white freemen were allowed to vote until suffrage was restricted temporarily to householders from 1655 to 1656, to freeholders from 1670 to 1676, and following the death of Nathaniel Bacon in 1676, to ...