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  1. www.stlmag.com › history › the-19th-amendment-turns-100St. Louis suffragists played a key role in advocating for the ...

    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.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Women's_suffrage_in_MissouriWomen's suffrage in Missouri - Wikipedia

    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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  4. www.history.com › the-fight-for-womens-suffrageWomen’s Suffrage - The U.S. Movement, Leaders & 19th ...

    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 ...

  5. www.stlpr.org › show › st-louis-on-the-air‘Beyond The Ballot’ Explores History Of Women’s Suffrage ...

    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.

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  7. artsandculture.google.com › story › the-19thThe 19th Amendment: Suffragists Change Tactics (1878-1916)

    Women’s suffrage spread first in the West—where territories and states sought to attract more women to their borders—and eventually moved eastward. In 1867, Kansas voters considered universal...

  8. www.britannica.com › summary › Causes-and-Effects-ofWomen’s Suffrage in the United States | Causes & Effects

    One study found that as American women gained the right to vote in different parts of the country, child mortality rates decreased by up to 15 percent. Another study found a link between women’s suffrage in the United States with increased spending on schools and an uptick in school enrollment. Women increasingly have won elections in the ...

  9. oxfordre.com › americanhistory › displayWoman Suffrage Movement in the United States | Oxford ...

    Published online: 28 March 2018. Summary. Woman suffragists in the United States engaged in a sustained, difficult, and multigenerational struggle: seventy-two years elapsed between the Seneca Falls convention (1848) and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920).