Suffrage was available to most women and African Americans in New Jersey immediately upon the formation of the state. The first New Jersey state constitution allowed any person who owned a certain val
Women's Political Union of New Jersey
Women's suffrage in New Jersey from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly February 1877
Susan Pecker Fowler
Votes for Women New Jersey c. 1914
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect rec
Women's suffrage in New Jersey
…known as the National Woman's Party (NWP) and many New Jersey members acted as Silent Sentinels, protesting in Washington, D.C. They were pushing for a federal suffrage amendment which New Jersey ratified on February 10, 1920. Some women enjoyed early suffrage in New Jersey. The state constitution specified that any woman or man…
The Nineteenth Amendment in the National Archives
Text of the small ad that attracted a diverse meeting of both men and women at the first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, during July 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) with Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. New York Daily Graphic, January 16, 1878, p. 501