enfranchise

It took the 19th Amendment to enfranchise women as a matter of constitutional right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

If voters pass the measure, it goes back to the council to decide when — if ever — to enfranchise the immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Pressure began building to enfranchise women voters in the early 20th century, notably in the southeastern state of Yucatan, said Lorenzo Meyer, a historian at the Colegio de Mexico.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023

“We have such an engaged electorate here in D.C., and it’s very important that we enfranchise all eligible voters.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“What I don’t want to see is a system that enfranchises some people and not others and we need the research to really tell what happened here,” Mr. de Blasio said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021

Pass another voting rights act that enfranchises as many Americans as possible.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021

“A historical atlas enfranchises the whole nation,” he said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2013

The new law, to become operative when a new Diet is elected this spring, enfranchises 9,600,000 adult males.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Douglass may not have held a role as a judge, legislator, or even enfranchised citizen, yet he nonetheless played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s understanding of equal citizenship in the Civil War era.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

A Republican from Montana, Rankin pushed for the 19th Amendment that enfranchised women across the country four years later.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2023

But the Electoral Commission says only one in five newly enfranchised 16 and 17-year-olds registered to vote ahead of May's local elections.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2022

Their efforts to provide Black people with greater legal rights earned them the support of African Americans in both the South, where they were newly enfranchised, and the Northeast.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women, but some states quickly moved to deny nonwhite women—and men—the right to vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

"Those are two great examples of private sector firms enfranchising themselves in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower."

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

“To have the person who was always part of enfranchising the community be disenfranchised the way he was, was unconscionable,” Norton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

While neither group is affiliated with Abrams’ campaign, they are continuing voter registration and education initiatives predicated on her goal of enfranchising more minority communities.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2022

But other Radicals thought the federal government could go further than enfranchising black men.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2020

A petition to Congress for the submission of a constitutional amendment enfranchising women was circulated among our various unions, and within two months it received nearly 300,000 signatures and indorsements.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper