Sentence examples for issue of suffrage from inspiring English sources

National Woman Suffrage Association NWSAAmericanican organization, founded in 1869 and based in New York City, that was created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton when the women's rights movement split into two groups over the issue of suffrage for African American men.

A scant three years after the end of the Civil War, the United States was embroiled in the issue of suffrage for African American men, and many suffragists notably those who formed the American Woman Suffrage Association—felt it necessary to postpone the fight for woman suffrage.

They also turned, at last, to the issue of suffrage.

After World War II the issue of universal suffrage served as a catalyst for political mobilization.

Hung disagrees: "Beijing wants to get it passed, because once it has passed the whole issue that defines the democratic camp looks like it's over: the issue of universal suffrage is settled.

From 1904 onwards, Bondfield was increasingly occupied with the issue of women's suffrage.

During the war years 1914 18, with the issue of women's suffrage quiescent, Cobden became increasingly involved in South African affairs.

In 1917, Dudley became the Third Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, where she contributed significantly to advancing legislation on the issue of women's suffrage.

Republicans campaigned in that year's election on the issue of African-American suffrage, but were met with a voter surge towards the Democrats, who opposed it.

After a campaign lasting 72 years, the issue of women's suffrage finally reached the US Congress in 1919 when President Wilson advocated it as a "war measure".

In October 1912, aware of the unbridgeable gap between his own position and that of his Labour colleagues, Lansbury resigned his seat to fight a by-election in Bow and Bromley on the specific issue of women's suffrage.