women's suffrage

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The fight for women’s suffrage, the prohibition movement and other progressive achievements marked the years before the sesquicentennial.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

You get two competing organizations, and women's suffrage is kind of eclipsed for another 50 years.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

"Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage and prison reform."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

There was all this labor organizing and social groups and movements that agitated from everything from public kindergarten to women’s suffrage to the FDA and the Parks Service.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

She gave us lectures on women’s suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns