suffragists
Ballot rights campaigners
Suffragists were activists who campaigned for voting rights, particularly women's right to vote.
The term applies especially to those in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who fought for women's suffrage in Britain and America: The suffragists marched on Washington.
The more militant British activists were called suffragettes, often by their opponents.
Legal equality for females
- equalitySame status for all
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- liberationRelease from constraint
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
pioneers · reformers · sisterhood · gender equality · social change · temperance · bloomers · consciousness-raising
Public expression of disapproval
- marchRhythmic group walk
- rallyGathering for a cause
- petitionFormal written appeal
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
picket · campaign · advocacy · civil disobedience · leafletting · grassroots · boycott · hunger strike
Waist-worn cloth strip
- bannerDisplayed strip with message
- purpleHue between crimson and azure
- whiteAbsence of pigment
- goldElement seventy-nine
green · rosette · pennant · flag · brooch · parade float · ribbon · badge
Historic New York reform gathering
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- amendmentChange to official text
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- movementChange in position
cause · triumph · victory · legacy · centennial · commemoration
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- Ida B. Wells
- Harriet Tubman
Licensed business operation
- ballotVoting document
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- electorateEligible voting body
- disenfranchisedDeprived of voting rights
voter registration · poll tax · secret ballot · voting booth · referendum · electoral reform · women's vote · voting rights
women's rights
Legal equality for females
- equalitySame status for all
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- liberationRelease from constraint
feminism · pioneers · reformers · sisterhood · gender equality · social change · temperance · bloomers · consciousness-raising · solidarity
protest
Public expression of disapproval
demonstration · picket · campaign · advocacy · civil disobedience · leafletting · grassroots · boycott · hunger strike · direct action
sash
Waist-worn cloth strip
gold · green · rosette · pennant · flag · brooch · parade float · ribbon · badge
Seneca Falls
Historic New York reform gathering
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- amendmentChange to official text
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
movement · cause · triumph · victory · legacy · centennial · commemoration
Susan B. Anthony
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- Ida B. Wells
franchise
Licensed business operation
- ballotVoting document
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- electorateEligible voting body
disenfranchised · voter registration · poll tax · secret ballot · voting booth · referendum · electoral reform · women's vote · voting rights · representation
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, notable women, women pioneers
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- moral exemplarsGandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, saints
suffragistsoppressors
Those who subjugate others
anti-feminists · reactionaries · traditionalists · authoritarians · oligarchs
- suffragist movementCampaign for voting equality