Sentence examples for before suffrage from inspiring English sources

Encountering the women's rights movement in the early 1850s, and encouraged by other women leaders, notably Lucretia Mott, she continued to appear before suffrage gatherings for the rest of her life.

Clinton's own grandmother wouldn't have earned the right to vote in the presidential election until 1913, when Illinois passed legislation allowing it; her mother was born before suffrage became a national right.

If all men are created equal, how did the American Dream thrive throughout the country's shameful period of slavery and before suffrage?

These events occurred between 2,500-4,000 years before suffrage.

"Women waited 144 years before earning 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.

Esther Morris lived to be almost 90, but died before woman suffrage became the law of the land -- not just Wyoming -- in 1920.

Douglas Carswell, an MP and author of a new book on technology and democracy, notes that before universal suffrage an MP enjoyed a personal relationship with the small number of residents eligible to vote in his constituency.

One would have to go back to the days before universal suffrage to identify a larger group so stereotyped and reviled and so excluded from a decision that affects it so directly.

The ideas and philosophy of Sun Ra, whose centenary is celebrated this year, were also about improving the lives of black people: he started making music before universal suffrage or the civil rights struggle.

It is worth noting, however, that Hamilton was describing an age before universal suffrage in which voters did not vote for members of the electoral college in many states.