suffrage
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Consider some other hot-button social debates that were nonissues this week—such as women’s suffrage and temperance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
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
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
On Monday, March 3, 1913, attorney Inez Milholland Boissevain, sporting a white cape and perched atop a white horse, led the women’s suffrage parade down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do not need your suffrages nor your oaths.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Mr. Bradlaugh again seeks the suffrages of the electors of Northampton.
From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Charles Bradlaugh
At length it was wisely agreed by both parties to withdraw their suffrages from each in favour of a third candidate, if one could be found who should be agreeable to the whole congregation.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
The Veni Creator is then sung kneeling, followed by the litany with special suffrages.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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