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 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

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

Somalians turned out in droves on Thursday to vote in local elections in the capital Mogadishu -- the first by universal suffrage in nearly 60 years -- with the city locked down amid security concerns.

From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025

The morning after the two-day American Equal Rights Association meeting adjourned, Stanton and Anthony called friends of women’s suffrage to a follow-up meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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 candidates for the suffrages of the electors of Chippinge had passed the threshold of the borough.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman

While the two great national parties divided the suffrages of the people, North and South, everything in his eyes was dead.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg

History does not inform of any discussion with reference to it, nor of any suffrages having been taken.

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison

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