Sentence examples for won suffrage from inspiring English sources

Women won suffrage in Mexico in 1955.

But how might political history have been different if they hadn't won suffrage?

Though American women had already ditched their corsets and won suffrage, it took the demands of World War II to propel a generation of American "Rosies" onto the factory floor.

The American Women's Rights Movement always lagged behind the Civil Rights Movement; black men gained the vote in February 1870 ― FIFTY years before women finally won suffrage in August 1920.

From the time they won suffrage for those women they deemed worthy of it, white women have served as the vanguard of white supremacy, even as they demanded more equity for themselves.

To the astonishment of the outside world, the same women who vigorously defended multiple marriages also fought for — and won — female suffrage.

It's about on the street, grassroots, getting-in-the-way politics, the same politics that won women suffrage, defeated the poll tax and could stop the cuts.

She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association, which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the state and local levels.

And decades after their deaths, the three Pankhurst women who did so much to win universal suffrage continue to be divided.

Many people here reject the idea of pre-selecting candidates in this way, some support calls for a mass campaign for civil disobedience to occupy the central business district to win universal suffrage that meets international standards.

Argentines won universal male suffrage as early as 1912, but lost it to a coup in 1930.