suffrage

Johnson had prosecuted graft and civic corruption in San Francisco, and his progressive reforms gave California voters some of the very tools your ballot offers you today: the initiative, recall, referendum, and women’s suffrage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

Black Pennsylvanians faced mob attacks and the loss of suffrage rights after the state’s 1838 constitutional convention, but, together with white Quakers, kept operating the Underground Railroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The fight for women’s suffrage, the prohibition movement and other progressive achievements marked the years before the sesquicentennial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The way Anthony saw things, each time one of their leaders married, it created one more obstacle, one more distraction that would interfere with the progress of suffrage and women’s rights.

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

He never sought to gain the suffrages of the public by unworthy concessions, but kept straight on his path, ever mindful of an ideal to be reached and never swerving therefrom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

So if one had failed in that trying period of the country, the world was sure to hear of it when he came up for the suffrages of the people.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

Bradford, by the suffrages of his brethren, was made Governor for the first time in Carver's place.

From The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day by Albert Christopher Addison

In his eyes they were one and all usurpers and plebeian upstarts, who ruled only by the suffrages of an ignorant and deluded mob.

From The World Masters by George Chetwynd Griffith