suffrage
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These ranged from facts about the history of women’s suffrage to the founding of Puerto Rico’s oldest punk band, La Experiencia de Toñito Cabanillas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
The law requires that committee to review designs, and after a multiyear effort, it settled on five themes for the five quarters: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, abolition, suffrage and civil rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
After college, Rankin became an advocate and organizer for the suffrage movement in several western states and New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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
The National Woman Suffrage Association was dedicated to opposing the Fifteenth Amendment, promoting a sixteenth amendment establishing female suffrage, supporting divorce reform, and advocating for other women’s rights issues.
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
That which, from Homer to Shakespeare, has conquered the suffrages of the world, is solemnising and saddening, rather than tear-compelling.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
He promised, however, to accede to their proposal, provided, after the regiment was raised, in which he must be considered a volunteer, the majority cheerfully tendered him their suffrages.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
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
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
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