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This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Nevada. In 1869, Curtis J. Hillyer introduced a women's suffrage resolution in the Nevada Legislature which passed, though it would wait for another legislative session to approve a second time. The first women's suffrage convention took place in 1870 in Battle Mountain Station. Several women's suffrage resolutions are voted on, or approved, but none complete the criteria to become amendments to the Constitution of Nevada. In the 1880s, women gain the right to run for school offices and several women run and win. Some Nevada women's suffrage groups work throughout the 1890s and hold more conventions. However, most suffrage work slows down or stops around 1899. The Nevada Equal Franchise Society (NEFS) was created in 1911. That same year, Attorney Felice Cohn writes a women's suffrage resolution that is accepted and passed by the Nevada Legislature. Anne Henrietta Martin becomes president of NEFS in 1912. The next year, Cohn's resolution passes a second time and will go out as a voter referendum the next year. On November 3, 1914 Nevada voters approve women's suffrage. Women in Nevada continue to be involved in suffrage campaigning. On February 7, 1920 Nevada ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment.
References
- ↑ Nevada Historical Society (1909). Biennial report of the Nevada Historical Society (Public domain ed.). State Printing Office. pp. 58–. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ "LETTER FROM MARK TWAIN - MISS CLAPP'S SCHOOL". Carson City, NV: Territorial Enterprise. January 14, 1864. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ↑ Ohles, Frederik; Ohles, Shirley M.; Ramsay, John G. (October 1997). Biographical dictionary of modern American educators. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-0-313-29133-3 . Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ "Hannah Keziah Clapp". University of Nevada, Reno. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ↑ Nevada Historical Society (1922). Nevada Historical Society papers (Public domain ed.). State Printing Office. pp. 124–. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
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