Tag: women’s suffrage

The Savior of California’s Suffrage Movement

Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where women are reaching out to her. Printed below the cartoon is a poem by Alice Duer Miller.

The Savior of California’s Suffrage Movement

After California’s male voters decisively defeat a women’s voting rights ballot measure in 1896, suffragists display plenty of public bravado. But it’s all for show. …

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Men — Barely — Give Women the Vote

Published by Greg Lucas

California’s men narrowly grant California’s women the right to vote on October 10, 1911. Approval of the constitutional amendment makes California the sixth state to…

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