suffrage

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These ranged from facts about the history of women’s suffrage to the founding of Puerto Rico’s oldest punk band, La Experiencia de Toñito Cabanillas.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Universal suffrage is, however, practised in the breakaway region of Somaliland, which declared independence in 1991 but has never been internationally recognised.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

The Emancipation Proclamation, followed by the 13th Amendment and Lincoln’s unprecedented public call for black suffrage, confirmed his place at the forefront of progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

He had given us no direct indication he holds an anti–women’s suffrage position.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2025

On Monday, March 3, 1913, attorney Inez Milholland Boissevain, sporting a white cape and perched atop a white horse, led the women’s suffrage parade down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler