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Bookmark or Share- Women's suffrage - WikipediaWomen's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies.
- 19th Amendment - Definition, Passage & Summary - HISTORYThe 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of...
- 100 years of suffrage: The fight for women's representation ...Nearly 51 percent of the population is female, but far fewer women hold elected office than men. Efforts to limit who can vote persist. Clinton lost to a man known for sexist behavior, and none of ...
- Women’s Suffrage - The U.S. Movement, Leaders & 19th ...The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the...
- Suffrage at 100: A Visual History - The New York TimesHow did American women win the right to vote? These images help bring their decades-long movement into focus. Suffrage. at 100. A Visual History. Text by Jennifer Harlan. Introduction by...
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