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Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...
Historians have unearthed new evidence that, because of a strange loophole in New Jersey's state constitution, more than 100 women voted before 1807. But that power didn't last.
For a brief time in history, New Jersey was the only place in America where women could vote. Between 1776, when the state constitution permitted “all free inhabitants, of this State, of full ...
WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN NEW-JERSEY; Annual Meeting of the Woman' s Suffrage Association--Resolutions and ... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 10, 1869 ...
The fight for equality. For women in the Garden State, the women's suffrage movement was a battle to restore a right lost. New Jersey's first constitution in 1776 gave voting rights to “all ...
A group of women carry the American flag during a Women’s Suffrage Parade in New York City on May 3, 1913. The stars on the flag represented those states which have granted women the vote.
New musical "Suffs" puts heroes of the suffrage movement on stage 03:12. NEW YORK -- To mark the first day of Women's History Month, we take a look at the suffrage movement and winning the vote ...