women's suffrage

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"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

The progress we’ve made in women’s suffrage, equal rights, civil rights, the separation of church and state along with the freedom to worship as you choose speak to the progress we’ve made.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2024

Between 1909 and 1971, the Constitution was amended 11 more times—on average, about twice per decade—to do things like guarantee women’s suffrage, bar poll taxes, and include the District of Columbia in the Electoral College.

From Slate • May 8, 2024

When she got home, Stanton started work on the second volume of History of Woman Suffrage, which covered the period of the division of the women’s suffrage movement in 1869.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling