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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

“The struggle for suffrage was just around the corner,” notes Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

This poster celebrates suffrage and the League of Women Voters.

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

And they do this when they cannot point to one thing done officially to justify their claims to the suffrages of the people.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

Preces, prē′sez, n.pl. the alternate responsive petitions, as the versicles and suffrages, between the clergyman and the congregation in liturgical worship.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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