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Apr 28, 2020 · 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.
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The women's suffrage movement was active in Missouri mostly after the Civil War. There were significant developments in the St. Louis area, though groups and organized activity took place throughout the state.
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“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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Oct 29, 2009 · Getty Images. The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right ...
Aug 3, 2020 · That legal defeat hardly stopped Minor and her fellow suffragists in St. Louis and across the country, though. Moon noted that the first half of the new exhibit at the Missouri History Museum is dedicated to 32 women who contributed to and influenced the city of St. Louis before 1920.
1869. February: Members of WSAM petition the Missouri General Assembly for women's suffrage. [7] October: Missouri Woman Suffrage Convention is held in St. Louis. [8] October: Virginia Minor gives a speech at the convention, introducing the idea that the Fourteenth Amendment already gives women the right to vote.
Aug 17, 2020 · A sheet of pro-suffrage stamps from 1914. Missouri women did not win the right to vote until 1920, with the 19th Amendment. ... press refused to cover the movement for women’s rights, or did so ...
