suffragists in English

noun

1

a person advocating the extension of suffrage, especially to women.

Some prominent 19 th-century suffragists advocated adopting educational or property qualifications for voting that would disqualify most black women.

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1. That's Malcolm X and the suffragists and gay pride parades.

2. Suffragists seized this public-relations opportunity and held Conventions in Seattle during the exposition

3. 12 In 1918 the suffragists won the franchise for UK women over the age of

4. 1 In 1918 the suffragists won the franchise for UK women over the age of

5. The argument that an imperial power needed physically strong and virile rulers convinced many female anti-suffragists.

6. 164), but these “Arbitrationist” speakers were denigrated by pro-war speakers as wearing “petticoats” and being cowed by suffragists

7. Thousands of showily dressed suffragists had Amassed in Washington from across the nation — indeed the world — to march along Pennsylvania Avenue on …

8. By the early twentieth century, new leaders, including Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw, emerged and suffragists devised innovative tactics in the struggle for the right to vote, including suffrage parades and open-air meetings

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10. From exhibits inside the Arizona Capitol Museum to a gathering on the North Carolina Statehouse lawn, many Commemorations, including those that moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic, have highlighted a more nuanced history of the American women’s suffrage movement alongside the traditional tributes to well-known suffragists such as Susan B