suffrage

It passed civil rights acts that guaranteed birthright citizenship and enacted Reconstruction Acts that secured black suffrage in the South.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

The name is a nod to the women’s suffrage movement and was popularized by a 1912 textile industry strike in Lawrence, Mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The male-female suffrage distinction was easy, but in California, who, exactly, was a white male?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

“The struggle for suffrage was just around the corner,” notes Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

It was not long before some opponents of female suffrage deliberately used Victoria Woodhull’s other prominent positions to divert public attention from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Preces, prē′sez, n.pl. the alternate responsive petitions, as the versicles and suffrages, between the clergyman and the congregation in liturgical worship.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

And they do this when they cannot point to one thing done officially to justify their claims to the suffrages of the people.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

The "Electre" carried off all suffrages, and astonished even criticism itself.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

The holy angels would guard herself and the dear innocents, if angelic suffrages could be secured by never-ceasing fervent prayer.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield