Suffrage in a sentence

African American women, he believed, would have the same degree of empowerment as white women once African American men had the vote; hence, general female suffrage was, according to Douglass, of less concern than black male suffrage.

Learning of Woodhull's planned address, suffrage leaders postponed the opening of the 1871 National Woman Suffrage Association 's third annual convention in Washington in order to attend the committee hearing.

One of the provisions of the Act was the repeal of women's suffrage; full suffrage was not returned until Utah was admitted to the Union in 1896.

Subsequently, it was displayed prominently on the stage at each of the most important suffrage meetings until 1920, even though the grievance and resolution about woman suffrage was not written on it.

While suffrage did not become universal, the taxed peasantry was represented in Parliament, although with little influence and commoners without taxed property had no suffrage at all.

Women's suffrage Wilson favored women's suffrage at the state level, but held off support for a nationwide constitutional amendment because his party was sharply divided, with the South opposing an amendment on the grounds of state's rights.

And so those dynamics make the suffrage movement even more interesting because you can get into the dynamics of race and class.

A program from a women’s suffrage march that was held in March 1913.

Her safety, however, came at the expense of her suffrage: From across the border, she could no longer vote.

In 1917, when it became clear that President Wilson was standing against the vote for women, Betsy journeyed to Washington, D.C. and joined other suffrage protestors at the White House.

In 2020, a photograph in an Archives exhibition celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage was blurred to obscure signs critical of then-President Trump, sparking sharp criticism about political meddling.

It has done so through the town councils, which choose regional assembly members through indirect suffrage.

It is Universal suffrage that determines the make-up of our Parliament and the continuing consent of the majority that enables the survival of hereditary monarchy as the head of state and centre-piece of the British constitution.

Named after activist Emmeline Pankhurst, the game Panko, which was also known as Votes for Women, features a set of cards with images of prominent figures in the suffrage movement as well as opponents.

She said much of what is known today is because of the work of Grace Raymond Heberd, a University of Wyoming professor, who played an outsized role in advancing women's suffrage.

The collection includes artefacts relating to the suffrage movement, as well as placards, badges and posters from protests for a variety of causes, including marches against the Iraq war.

Thomas, while a serious advocate for women’s rights during the suffrage movement, also denied admission to black applicants and refused to hire Jewish faculty, to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Universal suffrage has been Finnish law since 1906, when Finland became the first European country to recognise women’s right to vote.

Which is an assembly of 88 religious members elected for eight-year terms by direct universal suffrage, responsible for appointing, supervising and dismissing the Supreme Leader.

Women weren't given suffrage till 144 years later.