Sentence examples for in suffrage from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless she and the technical wizardly around her have chillingly — and importantly — put the suffering back in suffrage.

When the theatre company left the Exeter suburb of Topsham, they were seen off from the train station by nearly a hundred women dressed in suffrage outfits – she says the location was chosen because 100 years ago women weren't allowed to stand on rail platforms (they were obliged to sit in the waiting room).

Historians of the interwar period are finding more evidence against this assumption, showing that the women's movement achieved some of its greatest advances in the period after the first world war: in maternity rights, international politics, and continued gains in suffrage, to name a few.

We analyse voter turnout using data from 309 local Norwegian language referendums carried out during 1965 2005, emphasising the effect of referendum type and changes in suffrage.

____ 3. The founder and first president of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, she often brought her children with her to march in suffrage parades.

Born in Nashville, the founder and first president of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, Anne Dallas Dudley often took her children with her when she marched in suffrage parades.

Sheppard was later active in woman suffrage movements in other countries, including England and the United States.

"We remind the GOP of the roots of the party – in equality, in emancipation, suffrage and civil rights".

He joined other prominent leaders in the abolition movement, such as Sojourner Truth, and emerging leaders in the suffrage movement, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in these efforts.

Their strike gained publicity when it attracted support from wealthy women active in progressive reform campaigns and in the suffrage movement.

He likened the marriages to acts of civil disobedience by women in the suffrage movement or by blacks in the civil rights movement.