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 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

Somalians turned out in droves on Thursday to vote in local elections in the capital Mogadishu -- the first by universal suffrage in nearly 60 years -- with the city locked down amid security concerns.

From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

Nevertheless, 4,029 suffrages were accorded him in the 15th arrondissement.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith

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

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