Black suffrage refers to black people's right to vote and has long been an issue in countries established under conditions of black minorities as well...

voting rights at the state level. Prior to the Civil War, free Black people had suffrage in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. However, the right...

Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first...

that began in the late 19th century in order to campaign against women's suffrage in countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and...

manhood suffrage"), in a shift that began the move away from a society stratified by wealth, to one which was now also based on race; black wealthy men...

"black to be male and women to be white". In 1890, two rival organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association...

Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one...

active suffrage, as distinct from passive suffrage, which is the right to stand for election. The combination of active and passive suffrage is sometimes...

Women's suffrage was established in the United States on a full or partial basis by various towns, counties, states, and territories during the latter...

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women...

barber. Niger was a leading influential figure in the movement for Black suffrage in early 19th century Rhode Island, during the onset of the Dorr Rebellion...

other rights of citizens for blacks. The Act stipulated that the former Confederate states had to include Negro male suffrage in their new constitutions...

The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan...

1872 the fight for women's suffrage became a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential...

A referendum on Black suffrage was held in New York in 1860. Voters were asked whether universal suffrage for Black men 21 years of age and older should...

American Civil War, where he worked for black suffrage and other civil rights. He was a spokesman for blacks of Kansas and "the West". Born free in Louisa...

The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington...

Democratic Party, who were anti-Reconstruction and had opposed black suffrage, attacked black men to prevent their voting. Octavius Catto was born free. His...

women's suffrage only to defeat black suffrage. Wood actually supported Impartial Suffrage, supporting both the rights of blacks and women. Nonetheless, the...

down African-American suffrage proposals by large margins. Northern public opinion tolerated Johnson's inaction on black suffrage as an experiment, to...

Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago on January 30, 1913.[page needed] One of the most important Black suffrage organizations in Chicago, the Alpha Suffrage Club...

franchise of black male voters was important for the party's future. On February 26, 1869, after rejecting more sweeping versions of a suffrage amendment...

established. Instead, the State legalized Black suffrage and passed a civil rights law guaranteeing Blacks equal rights in commerce and access to the...

Territorial Suffrage Act, which prohibited denying suffrage based on race or previous condition of servitude, which nullified Utah's ban on black suffrage. Before...

American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States...

states that reduced suffrage due to race. The Committee and House failed to agree on this proposal. Supporters of black suffrage worked to secure Congressional...

This timeline highlights milestones in women's suffrage in the United States, particularly the right of women to vote in elections at federal and state...

favorite, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio. The Republican platform supported black suffrage as part of the 14th Amendment's promise of full citizenship for former...

as justification of barring Black people from the priesthood, banning interracial marriages, and opposing Black suffrage.: 70  He stated that the curse...

delegate, fought against the disenfranchisement of African-Americans (see Black suffrage in Pennsylvania). According to historian Eric Foner, "When Stevens refused...