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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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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 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.
Both wings of the US suffrage movement—NAWSA and the NWP—immediately launched their ratification plans, mobilizing their members in every state to press their governors to call a special session of the legislature, then bombarding legislators with personal pleas to support ratification.
Woman suffrage challenged the legal principle of coverture, which subsumed a married woman’s political and economic identity into her husband’s; it also challenged dominant gender roles that confined women to the domestic sphere.
The movement gained not only unprecedented numbers of supporters but also leaders with deep experience in organizing labor. The instruction page attached to this 1911 woman suffrage petition from Chicago shows that suffragists adopted labor union tactics to build working-class support for woman suffrage.
