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During the webinar titled “Promoting the Vote and Protecting the Vote,” held in celebration of women’s suffrage, Abrams will also discuss racial justice and voting.
STACEY ABRAMS ON ‘PROTECTING THE VOTE’PHILIP VAN SLOOTENSEPTEMBER 12, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEReliable data about women’s voting patterns in the 1920s and 1930s is scarce, but according to Wolbrecht, some women in the years after suffrage never stopped believing that voting simply wasn’t their job.
WOMEN WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE 100 YEARS AGO. THEY DIDN’T START VOTING DIFFERENTLY FROM MEN UNTIL 1980.AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUXAUGUST 19, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTOnly recently, did I begin to question why LGBTQ women and women of color were left out of the prevailing narrative of women’s suffrage.
SUFFRAGE IS A BADASS HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONKATHI WOLFEAUGUST 18, 2020WASHINGTON BLADESan Diego County voters in 1911 supported suffrage by 3,331 to 2,464 votes, providing about a third of the votes in a statewide winning margin that was “a shot in the arm” for the national movement.
MORNING REPORT: CITY WALKS A FINE LINE WITH FRANCHISE FEE DEALVOICE OF SAN DIEGOAUGUST 7, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThen, in 1911, California, by far the most populous state in the West, joined them when voters supported suffrage by a tight margin of 51-49 percent.
SUFFRAGETTE CITY: SAN DIEGO’S CRUCIAL ROLE IN GETTING WOMEN THE VOTERANDY DOTINGAAUGUST 6, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOBoosted by big margins in other Southern California counties, suffrage prevailed by fewer than 4,000 votes — 125,037 for yes, 121,450 for no.
SUFFRAGETTE CITY: SAN DIEGO’S CRUCIAL ROLE IN GETTING WOMEN THE VOTERANDY DOTINGAAUGUST 6, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOAt the convention, suffrage was extended slightly although all non-real estate owners still could not vote.
HALLOWED HERITAGE: THE LIFE OF VIRGINIADOROTHY M. TORPEYIn 1848 he voted for Hume's household suffrage motion, and introduced a bill for the repeal of the Game Laws.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSOne of these councilmen shall be elected Mayor by the suffrage of all those who shall have taken the oath of the Commune.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUENot at all: a very different reason is now assigned for the extension of the suffrage in Ireland.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SUFFRAGE
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