Her work in the women's rights movement included founding the first black woman suffrage organization – the Alpha Suffrage Club of Chicago in 1913. The ...

Women's rights advocates viewed suffrage as a principal right for women as citizens of the nation. ... allow women the right to vote. Lockwood was also the first ...

... right to vote for the first time in a federal election. ... Since then, the struggle of women for their rights to participate in decision-making in the country ...

Mar 17, 2018 ... “Kiwis can be proud of our global reputation as a defender of human rights. We were the first country to allow women to vote, we consistently ...

Apr 2, 2014 ... “This is your chance, this is your right; you should not allow ... Kubiš has also urged the country's women to maintain and build on ...

When Paul began to organize a national suffrage parade, a key component of her plan was to channel media attention toward women's voting rights. Paul had first- ...

Women have the right to vote, and they cast votes at rates similar to men. A ... Cultural and traditional practices in the northern areas of the country prevented ...

Jan 28, 2019 ... Dear Senator: On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 national organizations ...

... women full voting rights. The first pennants used in presidential campaigns appeared just after the turn of the century, and felt pennants supporting ...

Lockwood claimed to have received 4,711 votes in nine states, and declared her candidacy a resounding success. "After all," she said, "equality of rights and ...

Oct 18, 2018 ... Log in to hide ads. First Look. Upcoming Afghan elections test country's commitment to women's rights. Since the US invasion in 2001, one of ...

Sep 18, 2017 ... ... woman, who at that time did not even have the right to vote. Yet ... right now in many cities across the country. Street gangs do not ...

African American women understood women's suffrage as part of a broader struggle to protect the rights of all black people. In New Orleans, segregated women's ...

May 22, 2016 ... You have continued to walk this path here at WCL, working on projects ranging from clinical programs on women's rights, domestic violence and ...

In the first half of the 1950s, the main claims of women in the field of work they ... Before 1945-46 women were neither allowed to vote nor vote, a right ...

... women in Kansas gained the right to vote in all elections. Ida, who claimed to have worn sweaters “before it was a woman's right,” believed in women's rights.

Jun 30, 2024 ... Exit polls suggest far-right RN took about 34 percent of votes; President Macron's centrist alliance slumped to third with 20.3 percent vote ...

... women work to ensure the right to vote. First LULAC Convention by UnknownSmithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino. LULAC. Pictured here is the first ...

Apr 14, 2010 ... We brought together rural activists from every corner of the country to Kandahar, and we had the first women's rights conference in Kandahar in ...

Nov 22, 2011 ... In 2010, Human Rights Watch joined South African civil society in condemning the first ... International law does allow for limitation on access ...