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17 sie 2020 · How did American women win the right to vote? These images help bring their decades-long movement into focus.
1 gru 2019 · One example: In 1913, the same year she rejected white suffragists' instructions to march at the end of the Washington, D.C., parade, Wells founded the first African American suffrage organization in Chicago, the Alpha Suffrage Club.
This paper calls into question each piece of this standard picture of Article V. Neither the language nor the law of Article V supplies a determinate answer to a long list of fundamental puzzles about the amendment process.
22 mar 2014 · This Article questions the consensus view of Article V’s irrelevance. Ra-ther than having always been superfluous, I suggest a different possibility: Article V–induced rigidity may have played an important, if unacknowl-edged, role in promoting the Constitution’s survival at a key moment in American history—the early decades of the ...
Woman suffragists in the United States engaged in a sustained, difficult, and multigenerational struggle: seventy-two years elapsed between the Seneca Falls convention (1848) and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920).
Starting with Laura Curtis Bullard’s iii popular novel Christine, or Woman’s Trials and Triumphs (1856), in which a young woman becomes a woman’s rights lecturer, American suffragists used creative writing to promote the cause until the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.
Use the anti-suffrage items to identify and study the arguments made by those opposed to suffrage. Study the maps to form a picture of which states and territories enfranchised women and which did not. Speculate about why there were differences in rights in different states and areas, and then look for evidence to support the hypothesis.
