suffragist movement
Women's ballot crusade
The suffragist movement was the organized campaign to secure voting rights for women, most active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Suffragists pursued their goals through petitions, protests, and political pressure.
In the United States, the movement culminated in the 19th Amendment (1920); in Britain, women gained full voting equality in 1928.
Her grandmother had been active in the suffragist movement.
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- gender inequalityUnequal treatment based on sex
- right to voteLegal power to elect
- marchesCoordinated rhythmic walking
- hunger strikesPolitical refusal of food
Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Ida B. Wells · silent sentinels · civil disobedience · pamphleteering · speeches · lobbying · industrial revolution · legal challenges · rallies · votes for women · white dress · feminist theory · equal rights · labor rights · voting rights · civil rights
suffragist movementJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
suffragist, movement, suffrage, suffragette, suffragism, moving, movable, moveable, immovable