suffrage
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During the First World War she moved to London to help the Worker's Suffrage Foundation campaign for women to get the vote and she never lived in Glasgow again, eventually settling in Bristol.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025
“I still to this day do not know her politics,” said Susan Combs, who served at the Department of the Interior during the Trump administration and chaired the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission with Shogan.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2022
“In this room, in 1918, the Committee on Women’s Suffrage convened to discuss and debate whether women should be granted the right to vote,” she said in her closing statement.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022
In 1890 the two suffrage groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
From National Geographic Kids • Feb. 25, 2020
In 1897, two years after the Massachusetts referendum, the antis formed the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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