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

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

He laid the basis for Conservatives to dominate British politics from 1886 to 1997, as his successors adapted to an emergent mass culture and wider suffrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

The male-female suffrage distinction was easy, but in California, who, exactly, was a white male?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

No one in the suffrage movement knew Woodhull well before she spoke, but she immediately became the woman to watch.

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

But the monarchy among the Goths of Spain was still elective, and it may be that Roderic had been legally placed on the throne by the suffrages of his fellow-peers.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

Earnestly desiring to have the suffrages of my holy patrons in that my last hour, I instinctively exclaimed, 'Sts.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

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

The new democracies which were to take the place of the old kingdoms had to have some sanction other than the suffrages of the people.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert