suffrage
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The author places the Fowlers’ uplifting take on phrenology in the context of the era’s other reform movements—abolition, suffrage and temperance—which aimed for large-scale social transformation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Universal suffrage is, however, practised in the breakaway region of Somaliland, which declared independence in 1991 but has never been internationally recognised.
From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025
The suffrage coin showed a marcher with a “votes for women” sign.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 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
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
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