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In 1875, Missouri considered women's suffrage during the state constitutional convention. Couzins went on a lecture tour to support women's suffrage in 1876. Women brought petitions to the Missouri General Assembly asking for a women's suffrage amendment to the state constitution in 1881.
“MISSOURI WOMEN: SUFFRAGE TO STATECRAFT” surveys the decades-long struggle for women’s suffrage by highlighting the roles of Missouri women in the national suffrage movement and the trailblazing women in Missouri politics who opened the doors for others to participate in the democratic process.
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Between 1867 and 1901, suffragists petitioned for a state constitutional amendment enfranchising women eighteen times. Only eight of those petitions came to a vote in the Missouri legislature, including the first one in 1867. Each time, the Missouri lawmakers voted against woman suffrage.
League of Women Voters rally in St. Louis Sept 13, 1920. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Missouri. Women's suffrage in Missouri started in earnest after the Civil War. In 1867, one of the first women's suffrage groups in the U.S. was formed, called the Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri. Suffragists in Missouri held conventions ...
The Woman’s Suffrage Association of Missouri was founded in 1867. In 1869, Missouri hosted a national suffrage convention in St. Louis. Virginia Minor discussed her belief that the right to vote was inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
Apr 28, 2020 · 12:36 PM. Expand. Suffragists of the St. LouisEqual Suffrage League gatherto travel across Missourito promote women’sright to vote in 1916. In 1866, women petitioned the Missouri legislature to remove the word “male” from the state Constitution’s section on voting rights. They were ignored.
Midwestern women began to organize local suffrage societies and campaigns in the 1860s and 1870s, after the disruption of the Civil War. One of the first was the Missouri Suffrage Association, founded in 1867.
