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Who was the bahamian Dame Doris Johnson?
Dame Doris Johnson, born 1921, and a teacher by profession, was the first Bahamian woman to be nominated to contest an election in the Bahamas. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Senate, the first woman to be made a government Leader and President of the Senate, and the first woman to be made Minister of Government.Like women such as Georgina Symonette, Mable Walker, Eugenia Lockhart, and Albertha Isaacs, among others, she was an early participant in the Women's Suffrage Movement of the 1950s in the Bahamas. This movement in the Bahamas had been founded by Mary Ingraham who became its first president.Doris Johnson, with the help of the Progressive Liberal Party (which she joined in 1956), the Bahamian Federation of Labour and the National Council of Women which she helped to establish in 1958, mobilized the women suffrage movement into a fighting force. The vote for women was finally won in 1962. Males over 21 already had the franchise since 1959.Johnson was nominated as a PLP candidate for the Eleuthra District in the 1962 elections, but withdrew from the race; but she contributed much to Bahamian social and political life until her death in 1983.Source: Verene A. Shepherd, ed. Women in Caribbean History: The British-Colonised Territories. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999.
What did Jane Addams become famous for?
She was a reformer to help create better rights for women and children. She created the Hull House and helped create a women's peace committee. She was also the vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1911 to 1914.
Where can you find information about the Canadian Urban Suffrage Movement?
This is a very interesting subject and I would advise you to go on www.google.com and type in your question as there is so much information. Below is a little about the Canadian Urban Suffrage Movement: Church and women's groups, farmers' organizations, labour unions , and savvy politicians eventually joined together to work to achieve female suffrage
Who was the first Indian woman to reach the pole?
Preety Sengupta in 1993
The first woman to win the nobel prize in literature in 1993?
i was the Lorraine hansberry
When did Missouri grant woman suffrage?
no
WHAT WAS The first Pacific state to adopt woman's suffrage?
Washington
What did the American Woman Suffrage Association try to do?
get every state to vote on women's suffrage.
The first state the grant woman right to vote?
Alabama
Which organizations worked primarily for womens suffrage?
The two organizations that fought for Women's suffrage were the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution.and the American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA) fought for the franchise on a state-by-state basis.
Which state had no statewide woman suffrage befoe 1920 but as surrounded by other states that had partial of full woman suffrage?
New Mexico
What organization supported a constitutional amendment To grant women to the right to vote?
The National Woman Suffrage Association.
What organization supported a constitutional amendment to grant a women the right to vote?
The National Woman Suffrage Association.
What organization supported a constitutional amendment to grant women the rights to vote?
The National Woman Suffrage Association.
What organizations supported a constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote?
The National Woman Suffrage Association.
What organization supported constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote?
The National Woman Suffrage Association.
What organization supported a constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote?
The National Woman Suffrage Association.
