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Aug 26, 2024 · The woman suffrage movement worked toward equal rights for women as citizens, as well as the right to vote. It was perhaps more important that the movement was building change on the foundation of a new, self-developed, economically independent womanhood.
In 1919, an amendment was proposed by Congress giving women the right to vote. Virginia’s Equal Suffrage League was among many organizations nationwide that had lobbied local governments, Congress, and the president to enfranchise women. Virginia’s General Assembly, however, was unmoved.
Organizing for women's suffrage began in Virginia in 1870, when Anna Whitehead Bodeker, originally from New Jersey, invited suffragist Pauline Kellogg Wright Davis to speak in Richmond. Bodeker and other supporters of women's suffrage created the Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association in May 1870. [1] [4]
The Equal Suffrage League (ESL) of Virginia was founded in 1909, as women in the commonwealth expanded their fight for the right to vote. Lila Meade Valentine, as the first president of the league, traveled throughout the state to raise public awareness and build support for women’s suffrage.
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The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and '30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had. At the same time, all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the United States—temperance leagues, religious movement...
In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights. They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Most of the delegates to the Seneca Falls Conventionagreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved thei...
During the 1850s, the women’s rights movement gathered steam, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. Almost immediately after the war ended, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment to the Constitutionraised familiar questions of suffrage and citizenship. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, extends the Constitution’s protection to all citiz...
This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the organization’s first president. By then, the suffragists’ approach had changed. Instead of arguing that women deserved the same rights and responsibilities as men because women and men were “cre...
Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th century. Still, southern and eastern states resisted. In 1916, NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Cattunveiled what she called a “Winning Plan” to get the vote at last...
Aug 26, 2020 · History. After Congress ratified the 19th Amendment in 1919, they needed 36 states to vote in favor of it in order to ratify the new amendment. States came together and the amendment was ratified...
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But by August of 1920, 36 states approved the proposal and it became law all across the country – even in Virginia--that the right to vote could not be denied based on sex. On February 21, 1952, Virginia showed its support for women’s suffrage by officially ratifying the 19th Amendment.
