Voting Rights for Women
Voting Rights for Women
Today most Americans have the same rights under the law. This was not always the case. Many groups of people did not have all their rights in the past.
Women did not have all their rights. Women did not have the right to vote under the law for many years.
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Women had to fight for many years to be allowed to vote.
Women fighting for the right to vote were called suffragists.
The suffragist movement in the US began at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in 1848.
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