suffrage
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After college, Rankin became an advocate and organizer for the suffrage movement in several western states and New York.
That was in 1962, when lawmakers rejected a proposal to elect the president by universal suffrage.
From New York Times
Did the Empire resist women’s suffrage in India?
From BBC
“The second generation was impatient with Stanton, who refused ‘to sing suffrage evermore,’ preferring ‘the rub-a-dub of agitation.’
From Washington Post
At Arizona’s 1911 constitutional convention to become a state, women’s suffrage failed again.
From Washington Post
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