Sentence examples for in the suffrage from inspiring English sources

Her mother was active in the suffrage movement.

"Not all the women in the suffrage movement were fighting for degrees.

His mother, the former Ida Glatt, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, was active in the suffrage movement.

There were often major splits in the suffrage movement but there was also enough solidarity to keep the mission afloat.

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.

She also took part in all the suffrage marches, and she nursed Mrs Pankhurst and others recovering from hunger strikes in her own home.

In the U.S., the suffrage movement began in the late 1840s when women's rights advocates began organizing on a national level.

The only other time was in 1868, when the suffrage amendment was first brought before Congress.

Berg relates Wilson's significant role in the passage of the suffrage amendment that gave women the vote in 1920.

On Feb. 14, 1910, 12 women gathered in Mrs. Livermore's Park Avenue home to revitalize the suffrage movement in New York State.