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Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Play about women’s suffrage leader from New Jersey performed in Jersey City. Aug 28, 2020, 1:24am Updated on Aug 28, 2020. By: News 12 Staff.
Women’s Suffrage: New Jersey has the distinction of being one of the original 13 colonies giving women the right to vote.
Carol Simon Levine will be portraying Lillian Feickert, president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912 to 1920, who lived in Plainfield.
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 New Jersey woman who was one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement is the subject of a play now being performed outdoors in Jersey City. The play may be about a pivotal moment in ...