Sentence examples for causes of suffrage from inspiring English sources

Shaw resigned her pastorates in 1885 and took up full time the causes of suffrage and temperance.

Once committed to the cause of suffrage, however, she clearly had found her métier.

The success of a second New York state referendum in 1917, followed by President Woodrow Wilson's conversion to the cause of suffrage in 1918 attested the effectiveness of Catt's flexible strategy of working at both federal and state levels to build support for woman suffrage.

She then fought in the civil war, as a spy and as a scout, and then took on the cause of suffrage because it's a continuation she had to first assure that women were free and she had to assure that they had basic civil rights.

Although the case was lost, it generated much publicity for the cause of woman suffrage.

By increments, Davison became radicalized to the cause of woman suffrage.

According to the terms of the bequest, the money was to be used to further the cause of woman suffrage.

In reality many of the everyday women, and men, who were involved in furthering the cause of universal suffrage also contributed to their communities in other ways.

Chancellor, a woman of discrimination, taste, and intelligence, gets caught up in the cause of woman suffrage and is subsequently consumed by her desire for political change.

She also maintained her commitment to issues of social justice, becoming actively involved with the National Association of Colored Women and the cause of woman suffrage.

When World War I began, the woman suffrage organizations shifted their energies to aiding the war effort, and their effectiveness did much to win the public wholeheartedly to the cause of woman suffrage.