But immigrant suffrage initiatives were defeated at the polls in San Francisco and Portland, Maine.
Immigrant and voting-rights advocates see non-citizen suffrage as a matter of taxpayer fairness and civic engagement.
It was natural for Annie Belcher and her daughter, then a teenager, to support women's suffrage.
Most guarantee or extend the operation of democracy (such as women's suffrage), rather than defend social norms (such as Prohibition).
He believed in women's suffrage, free speech, equal opportunity and big business.
We also know that the defiant, can-do spirit that moved millions to seek suffrage is what runs through the veins of American history.
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It was written - the melody was written by Mimi Farina and the words were written by a John Oppenheim in 1920s to support the suffrage movement.
Mrs Pankhurst also brought her daughters up to fight for women's rights, and the whole family helped develop the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
It is the hall which saw the earliest campaigns against the protectionist Corn Laws (hence the name Free Trade Hall) as well as for women's suffrage.
The ban is an anachronism: it dates back to the days before universal suffrage, when felons forfeited their property, ownership of which was a condition for voting.
The Emir of Kuwait has backed female suffrage in the face of strong opposition from tribal and Islamist factions in parliament, the BBC's Gulf correspondent Julia Wheeler reports.
Yet Australians are proud of their democratic inheritance: the world's first parliamentary elections by secret ballot (in Victoria in 1856), female suffrage (in South Australia in 1894) and so on.
The "Downton" characters bear witness to many innovations of the day: the telephone, women's suffrage, the cocktail party, the toaster and the idea that one can choose one's own path in life, regardless of birth.
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Only six countries out of 43 then recognised as nation states had something that began to deserve the name, and even there the suffrage was invariably limited, with some men and all women excluded.
As first lady, Maria Eva Duarte de Peron championed the rights of the poor, pushed for more social programs and argued for women's suffrage, drawing criticism from members of Argentina's political establishment and its upper class.
It was considered impolite for women to play an instrument in public, and yet in the teens around the time of the suffrage movement, women formed in America all-female, all-saxophone bands of four, eight, 12, 20 saxophones.
Western diplomats are hopeful that he may be brought to see that an imperfect election is better than none, but his spokesmen still insist that it is the government's responsibility to provide the security necessary for full suffrage.
During his years in local and state politics, Coolidge did take a number of forward-looking positions: he favored woman suffrage, voted for a minimum wage, and, as a Yankee able to get his share of the burgeoning Irish-Catholic vote, was generally sympathetic to immigration.
The era was indeed marked by an unbuttoning of Victorian sexual mores, by the activities of some brave if marginal feminists (such as the British campaigners for women's suffrage), by increasing female employment and by a decline in the importance of male muscular strength.
But, you might be surprised to learn what some women endured to win the vote, including being rounded into the Occoquan Workhouse for 60 days of hard labor, forced feeding, instrumental invasion of the body and in the case of Lucy Burns, imprisoned for her stance on suffrage and having her hands chained to the cell bars above her heads and left over night repeatedly.
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