Portal:Women's suffrage

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Women's suffrage

Class HQB Main/Index sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category. Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status.— Excerpted from Women's suffrage on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Support

United Kingdom

• The Citizenship of Women: A Plea for Woman's Suffrage, 1905 speech by Kier Hardie

United States

• A Petition For Universal Suffrage (1865)
• Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine, 1874 by Susan B. Anthony
• Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment, 1876 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan B. Anthony
• Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered, 1896 by Henry B. Blackwell
• Petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, 1916 by Minnie Fisher Cunningham
• Petition from Carrie Chapman Catt of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1917 by Carrie Chapman Catt

Opposition

• Memorial from Alice Wadsworth of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1917 by Alice Wadsworth

Women's political activism

Abolitionism in the United States

• Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1836 by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
• To the Women of the Republic, 1864 letter by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Letter from Sereno E. Payne, Chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 1898 letter by Sereno E. Payne

Industrial conditions in the United States

• Petition from the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women for an investigation into the industrial conditions of women, 1906 by the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women
• Petition from the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs recommending a study of child labor, 1906 by the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs