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Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters

The Observer 31 Mar 2025
Moira Donegan. Read more ... Voter registration drives by non-profits have a rich and powerful history, dating back to the League of Women Voters and other civic groups encouraging women to register in the 1920s after the passage of the 19th amendment ... .
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What the Children’s Bureau Teaches us About Promoting Federal Programs

Time Magazine 31 Mar 2025
Polling indicates Americans may be souring on this approach, as program cuts come closer to home ... The history of the U.S ... In 1920, Lathrop’s efforts received a major boost when states ratified the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
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Opinion: Women can do any job in US: Celebrating Women's History Month

Citizen Times 30 Mar 2025
“Girls can’t do that job,” the local TV news director immediately responded, grinning, to my daring statement that I wanted to become a newscaster ... The 19th Amendment giving U.S ... Likewise, the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment continues ... president.
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Rare documents signed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton hit the market. See the photos

Democrat & Chronicle 28 Mar 2025
What makes them unusual is that they include the signatures of both women, whose trailblazing work paved the way for the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S ... P.S ... She died in 1906, 14 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified.
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From an intramural sport to Pat Summitt: Women's basketball has a long history at UT

Knox News 27 Mar 2025
Jewel Spear on Lady Vols' win over Ohio State to advance to March Madness Sweet 16 ... The UT women had an absence of about 10 years before re-fielding a team in 1920, the same year women earned the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
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We the People: Studying and Scrutinizing the U.S. Constitution

Lakota Country Times 26 Mar 2025
... citizenship and equal protection (14th Amendment), and securing voting rights regardless of race (15th Amendment) or sex (19th Amendment), illuminate the Constitution’s flexibility and elasticity.
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\u2018Hadestown,\u2019 \u2018Frozen\u2019 in Lied Center 25-26 Glenn Korff Broadway series

The Daily Nebraskan 25 Mar 2025
The Lied Center for Performing Arts has announced its 2025-2026 Glenn Korff Broadway series ... 15-25, 2025 ... Coming next from Oct ... This all female cast takes you back in time to the women's suffrage movement and the battle for the 19th amendment ... .
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Endangered Species Coalition Responds to Republican-led Congressional Attacks on Endangered Species Act and Gray Wolves

Common Dreams 25 Mar 2025
Unfortunately, Representative Westerman’s ESA amendments are crafted for greedy billionaires clinging to a 19th-century vision of plundering the planet,” said Endangered Species Coalition National Policy Director Jewel Tomasula.
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Gutsy gals: A glimpse into the contributions of area women during Women’s History Month

Herald-Standard 23 Mar 2025
The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, but unfortunately, LeMoyne Wills died in 1908, and did not live to see women receive the right to vote.
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Remember When: Fairfield County women who made history

Lancaster Eagle Gazette 23 Mar 2025
Hopefully, readers know women did not have the right to vote until 1920 when the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on Aug. 26, 1920 ... Leah Esba Tompkins Baker (1868-1951) lived on a farm near Stoutsville ... 8th and on the list was Mrs. C.
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Black women’s suffrage: A history of activism and resilience

The Cincinnati Herald 22 Mar 2025
... 19th Amendment in 1920 and fighting for its equal enforcement after 1920, as Jim Crow laws kept Black women and other women of color from the polls.President Woodrow Wilson signs the 19th Amendment.
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New York's Top Court Put an End to Non-Citizen Voting

Hot Air 21 Mar 2025
Professor Hills is right that women in New York got the right to vote in 1917, three years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment. However, in that case New York amended its own constitution to make women's suffrage law.
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Suza: Become the light by resisting authoritarianism | Column

Ames Tribune 21 Mar 2025
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr ... Because of these efforts, the 19th Amendment to provide women the right to vote became law in 1920 ... We must speak out against the government’s threat to our First Amendment rights.
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Greetings from Grangeville

The Lewiston Tribune 20 Mar 2025
In 1914, prohibition again shuttered those businesses and the area was officially “dry” until the 19th Amendment was repealed in 1933 ... In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Grangeville’s business ...
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The 19th Amendment is the topic of March's Ruthmere Book Club discussion in Elkhart

South Bend Tribune 19 Mar 2025
Thursday, March 20, at the Havilah Beardsley House, 102 W ... This month’s book is “Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment” by Eleanor Clift.

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