suffrage

In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

These ranged from facts about the history of women’s suffrage to the founding of Puerto Rico’s oldest punk band, La Experiencia de Toñito Cabanillas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

After college, Rankin became an advocate and organizer for the suffrage movement in several western states and New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Her show “Suffs,” which is about the women’s suffrage movement leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, opens Tuesday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre as part of its inaugural national tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

Stanton had joined the temperance organization out of her allegiance to Anthony; her heart belonged to the suffrage movement.

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

The suffrages of the distinguished men who compose the Institute honor me.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

I 'm afraid I 'm not in the humor just now to give it my best suffrages.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

That which, from Homer to Shakespeare, has conquered the suffrages of the world, is solemnising and saddening, rather than tear-compelling.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

Flattering himself with being able to reconcile the suffrages, he went to the temple and preached.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'