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 name is a nod to the women’s suffrage movement and was popularized by a 1912 textile industry strike in Lawrence, Mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

It called on reforms in education, employment, property rights, religion, and, most notably, suffrage.

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

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

If there had been an anti-cholera party, Van Buren might have commanded suffrages, as sensibly, by pledging himself to do all in his power, to prevent its extension.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School

Any social reform to be permanent and effectual must be carried out by the universal suffrages of the people.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose

So if one had failed in that trying period of the country, the world was sure to hear of it when he came up for the suffrages of the people.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley