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unusual facts about National Society for Women's Suffrage


Suffrage drama

Pro-suffrage acting organizations such as The Actresses Franchise League and Edith Craig's Pioneer Players formed alongside more political entities like the National Society for Women's Suffrage to campaign for the vote using drama and lectures.


Anna Escobedo Cabral

She also served on the boards of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, a historic center commemorating women's suffrage, and Martha's Table, a nonprofit that assists the less fortunate to better themselves through volunteer activities.

Cerro Chato

That was the first time in Latin America that women exercised the right to vote.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

After Leslie's death in 1880, the magazine was continued by his widow, the women's suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie.

Gender apartheid

Recent advancements have been seen in light of Arab Spring and the 2011–13 Saudi Arabian protests, such as King Abdullah granting women's suffrage in the 2015 municipal elections.

Heidar Arfaa

Senator Arfaa is most notable for authoring legislation of the White Revolution concerning Land Reform, Privatization of Government Enterprises, Women's Suffrage, Nationalization of Forests and Pasturelands, and Profit Sharing for Industrial Workers.

Mabel H. Grosvenor

Bell, far ahead of his time in support of social equality and a strong supporter of women's rights, encouraged Grosvenor's mother and grandmother to march in 1913 on the U.S. capital in support of women's right to vote.

North Road Cemetery

Edward Charles Stirling, founder of the University of Adelaide's medical school, Director of South Australian Museum, anthropologist, explorer and the first person in Australasia to introduce a bill for women's suffrage

Onie Ponder

In 1920, when Ponder was 21, women were given the right to vote for the first time.

The Most Famous Man in America

After the war, Beecher supported social reform causes such as women's suffrage and temperance.

Women in Hungary

The Men's League for Women's Suffrage was founded in 1910, and in 1913 the 7th Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance met in Budapest.

Women's National Anti-Suffrage League

In 1910, the group amalgamated with the Men's National League for Opposing Women's Franchise to form the National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage with Lord Cromer as president and Lady Jersey as Vice-President.


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