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Timeline of women's suffrage in South Dakota

December 18, 2023

This is a timeline of women's suffrage in South Dakota. The early history of women's suffrage in the state is shared with North Dakota. When South Dakota became a state, it held a voter referendum in 1890 on an equal suffrage amendment. This effort failed, but suffragists continued to organize and lobby the legislature to pass voter referendums. None passed until 1918. South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4, 1919.

South Dakota suffragists

19th century edit

 
South Dakota suffragists

1860s edit

1868

1870s edit

1872

  • The Territorial Legislature nearly passes a full women's suffrage bill, losing by one vote.[2]

1879

  • The Dakota Territory gives women the right to vote in school meetings.[2]

1880s edit

1881

  • Women are allowed to become county superintendents of public education.[3]

1883

  • A change in the way people would vote on school issues disenfranchised many women voters in the territory.[2] The Territory wanted women to use separate ballots for school issues.[1]
  • Summer: Matilda Joslyn Gage lectures on women's suffrage in the territory.[4]
  • September 6: A women's suffrage petition signed by 1,000 people was presented to the Sioux Falls convention that was deciding whether or not to split the territory.[4]

1884

1885

1887

  • A school suffrage bill expanding the rights of women to vote for all kinds of school issues passes.[2]
  • A full women's suffrage bill is proposed, but does not pass the territorial legislature.[5]

1888

  • A call for a women's suffrage group was put out in Grand Forks.[6] On April 12, a meeting was held to form a women's suffrage group that had a packed crowd.[6]

1889

  • After the Dakota territory is admitted as two states, two distinct women's suffrage movements emerge.[5]
  • October 21: The South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association (SDESA) is formed in Huron by Emma Smith DeVoe and her husband, John.[7][8]
  • November 11: Susan B. Anthony starts a lecture tour in South Dakota.[9]

1890s edit

1890

  • February: The Picklers and Alonzo Wardall ask NWSA for organizers and funds for the upcoming suffrage campaign.[7]
  • June: Sophia M. Harden and other activists speak for women's suffrage at the state Democratic Party convention at Aberdeen.[7]
  • July 7–8: The SDESA holds a state suffrage convention in Huron.[7]
  • August 25–26: SDESA holds a second women's suffrage convention in Mitchell in order to strategize for the upcoming women's suffrage referendum vote.[7]
  • August 27: Suffrage leaders are able to speak at the Reuplican party convention in Mitchell.[7]
  • August: A suffrage convention was held in Grant County. The Grant County Equal Suffrage Association is formed.[10]
  • November 4: The women's suffrage amendment is defeated.[11]
  • The Athol Equal Suffrage Association is created.[10]
  • The Grant County Equal Suffrage Association is formed.[10]

1892

1893

  • A women's suffrage amendment bill is lobbied for and passed in the state legislature.[13]
  • July 4: Suffragists in Onida raise money for campaigns in Colorado, Kansas, and New York.[12]
  • September: SDESA holds its annual meeting in Aberdeen.[12]

1894

  • November: The state women's suffrage amendment is defeated.[13]

1895

  • September 16–17: WCTU and SDESA hold annual conventions in Pierre.[12]

1896

  • December 3–4: SDESA holds their annual convention in Salem.[12]

1897

  • October: The Union County Equal Suffrage Association is formed.[10]
  • Suffragists work towards influencing the state legislature to pass another state amendment bill.[13]

1898

  • July: Anna Simmons and Enma Cranmer lead the Equal Suffrage Day at Lake Madison Chautauqua.[14]
  • November: The state women's suffrage amendment was defeated.[13][14]

1899

  • September: SDESA holds a joint convention with the state WCTU in Madison.[15]

20th century edit

 
Letter from Alice M. A. Pickler, South Dakota Universal Franchise League February 26, 1913

1900s edit

1900

1901

  • The South Dakota Political Equality Association (SDPEA) is formed.[16]
  • February 1: State WCTU members, Luella Ramsey and Philena Everett Johnson lobby for a state suffrage amendment.[15]
  • Spring: SDESA organizes local Political Equality Clubs to help distribute literature and better reach more women.[15]

1902

  • Women's suffrage convention called to be held in Watertown in October.[16]

1903

  • Women's suffrage petition for a state suffrage amendment is rejected by the secretary of state.[17]

1904

  • The South Dakota Prohibition Party's platform includes equal women's suffrage.[15]

1906

  • Suffragists petition the state legislature to consider women's suffrage.[17]

1907

  • March: The business committee of SDESA meets in Highmore.[15]
  • September 17–18: SDESA holds its annual meeting in Pierre.[15]

1908

  • SDESA raises money by the foot, literally asking people to send them enough pennies to fit on twelves inches of cardboard.[15]

1909

  • Suffragists petition the state legislature to pass a women's suffrage amendment referendum.[17]
  • June 18: SDESA holds their suffrage convention in Aberdeen.[18]
  • November 3–5: The state suffrage convention is held in Sioux Falls.[18]

1910s edit

1910

  • The Philip Suffrage Club is organized in Philip.[10]
  • A major suffrage campaign is enacted, bringing in activists from around the state and country, including Anna Howard Shaw.[18]
  • November: The women's suffrage referendum is defeated.[19][20]

1911

  • January: Activists lobby the state legislature on women's suffrage.[21]
  • February: Suffragists put forward the idea that the state constitution already allowed state and county offices.[21]
  • The South Dakota Universal Franchise League is formed by Mamie Shields Pyle.[8]

1912

1913

  • The women's suffrage amendment bill is the first to pass the legislative session.[24]
  • March: South Dakota is represented in the Woman Suffrage Procession by marchers and a golden chariot.[25]
  • July: SDUFL holds their annual meeting in Huron.[25]

1915

  • Winter: A women's suffrage amendment is passed by the state legislature and will go to a voter referendum.[26]

1916

1918

  • November 6: Women's suffrage passes with the passage of the Citizenship Amendment.[29]

1919

1920s edit

1924

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Handy-Marchello, Barbara (5 August 2020). "The road to women's voting rights in North Dakota". Williston Herald. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  2. ^ a b c d e Anthony 1902, p. 543.
  3. ^ a b c d "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, Before 1889". History in South Dakota. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  4. ^ a b Robinson 1904, p. 598.
  5. ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 544.
  6. ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 546.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage". History in South Dakota. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
  8. ^ a b c "South Dakota and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  9. ^ Robinson 1904, p. 599.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Biographies of Women's Suffrage – A". History in South Dakota. 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
  11. ^ Wittmayer 1981, p. 224.
  12. ^ a b c d e f "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, 1891-1896". History in South Dakota. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  13. ^ a b c d Robinson 1904, p. 601.
  14. ^ a b "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, 1897-1898". History in South Dakota. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, 1899-1908". History in South Dakota. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  16. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 585.
  17. ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 586.
  18. ^ a b c "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, 1909-1910". History in South Dakota. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  19. ^ Harper 1922, p. 586-587.
  20. ^ Harper 1922, p. 587.
  21. ^ a b "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, 1911-1912". History in South Dakota. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  22. ^ "About South Dakota messenger. (Pierre, S.D.) 1912-1914". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  23. ^ Harper 1922, p. 588.
  24. ^ Harper 1922, p. 589.
  25. ^ a b "Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, 1913-1914". History in South Dakota. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  26. ^ a b c d "The 1916 Campaigns". History in South Dakota. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
  27. ^ Easton 1983, p. 216.
  28. ^ Easton 1983, p. 215.
  29. ^ Easton 1983, p. 225.
  30. ^ Schroedel & Aslanian 2015, p. 311.

Sources edit

  • Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
  • Easton, Patricia O'Keefe (Fall 1983). "Woman Suffrage in South Dakota: The Final Decade". South Dakota History. 13 (3): 206–226 – via South Dakota State Historical Society.
  • Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
  • Robinson, Doane (1904). "History of Woman Suffrage in South Dakota". History of South Dakota Together With Personal Mention of Citizens of South Dakota. B. F. Bowen & Co. ISBN 9780598276575.
  • Schroedel, Jean; Aslanian, Artour (2015). "Native American Vote Suppression: The Case of South Dakota". Race, Gender & Class. 22 (1–2): 308–323. JSTOR 26505340 – via JSTOR.
  • Wittmayer, Cecelia M. (Summer 1981). "'The 1889-1890 Woman Suffrage Campaign: A Need to Organize'". South Dakota History. 11 (3): 200–225 – via South Dakota Historical Society.

External links edit

  • Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage

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This is a timeline of women s suffrage in South Dakota The early history of women s suffrage in the state is shared with North Dakota When South Dakota became a state it held a voter referendum in 1890 on an equal suffrage amendment This effort failed but suffragists continued to organize and lobby the legislature to pass voter referendums None passed until 1918 South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4 1919 South Dakota suffragists Contents 1 19th century 1 1 1860s 1 2 1870s 1 3 1880s 1 4 1890s 2 20th century 2 1 1900s 2 2 1910s 2 3 1920s 3 See also 4 References 4 1 Sources 5 External links19th century edit nbsp South Dakota suffragists1860s edit 1868 Enos Stutsman proposes a women s suffrage bill in the Dakota Territorial House 1 1870s edit 1872 The Territorial Legislature nearly passes a full women s suffrage bill losing by one vote 2 1879 The Dakota Territory gives women the right to vote in school meetings 2 1880s edit 1881 Women are allowed to become county superintendents of public education 3 1883 A change in the way people would vote on school issues disenfranchised many women voters in the territory 2 The Territory wanted women to use separate ballots for school issues 1 Summer Matilda Joslyn Gage lectures on women s suffrage in the territory 4 September 6 A women s suffrage petition signed by 1 000 people was presented to the Sioux Falls convention that was deciding whether or not to split the territory 4 1884 The South Dakota Republican Party adopts universal suffrage in their party platform 3 1885 Activists in the southern part of the Dakota territory working with the Woman s Christian Temperance Union WCTU work on petitions to influence the territorial legislature to support women s suffrage 3 John Pickler proposes a women s suffrage bill in the Territorial House which passed It is vetoed by Governor Gilbert A Pierce 2 Marietta Bones starts a suffrage organization in Webster 3 1887 A school suffrage bill expanding the rights of women to vote for all kinds of school issues passes 2 A full women s suffrage bill is proposed but does not pass the territorial legislature 5 1888 A call for a women s suffrage group was put out in Grand Forks 6 On April 12 a meeting was held to form a women s suffrage group that had a packed crowd 6 1889 After the Dakota territory is admitted as two states two distinct women s suffrage movements emerge 5 October 21 The South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association SDESA is formed in Huron by Emma Smith DeVoe and her husband John 7 8 November 11 Susan B Anthony starts a lecture tour in South Dakota 9 1890s edit 1890 February The Picklers and Alonzo Wardall ask NWSA for organizers and funds for the upcoming suffrage campaign 7 June Sophia M Harden and other activists speak for women s suffrage at the state Democratic Party convention at Aberdeen 7 July 7 8 The SDESA holds a state suffrage convention in Huron 7 August 25 26 SDESA holds a second women s suffrage convention in Mitchell in order to strategize for the upcoming women s suffrage referendum vote 7 August 27 Suffrage leaders are able to speak at the Reuplican party convention in Mitchell 7 August A suffrage convention was held in Grant County The Grant County Equal Suffrage Association is formed 10 November 4 The women s suffrage amendment is defeated 11 The Athol Equal Suffrage Association is created 10 The Grant County Equal Suffrage Association is formed 10 1892 The Prohibition Party passed resolutions for equal suffrage and equal pay 12 State suffrage convention was held in Huron 12 1893 A women s suffrage amendment bill is lobbied for and passed in the state legislature 13 July 4 Suffragists in Onida raise money for campaigns in Colorado Kansas and New York 12 September SDESA holds its annual meeting in Aberdeen 12 1894 November The state women s suffrage amendment is defeated 13 1895 September 16 17 WCTU and SDESA hold annual conventions in Pierre 12 1896 December 3 4 SDESA holds their annual convention in Salem 12 1897 October The Union County Equal Suffrage Association is formed 10 Suffragists work towards influencing the state legislature to pass another state amendment bill 13 1898 July Anna Simmons and Enma Cranmer lead the Equal Suffrage Day at Lake Madison Chautauqua 14 November The state women s suffrage amendment was defeated 13 14 1899 September SDESA holds a joint convention with the state WCTU in Madison 15 20th century edit nbsp Letter from Alice M A Pickler South Dakota Universal Franchise League February 26 19131900s edit 1900 January 15 U S Senator R F Pettigrew presents a petition for a federal suffrage amendment to the U S Senate 15 September SDESA holds their annual meeting in Brookings 15 1901 The South Dakota Political Equality Association SDPEA is formed 16 February 1 State WCTU members Luella Ramsey and Philena Everett Johnson lobby for a state suffrage amendment 15 Spring SDESA organizes local Political Equality Clubs to help distribute literature and better reach more women 15 1902 Women s suffrage convention called to be held in Watertown in October 16 1903 Women s suffrage petition for a state suffrage amendment is rejected by the secretary of state 17 1904 The South Dakota Prohibition Party s platform includes equal women s suffrage 15 1906 Suffragists petition the state legislature to consider women s suffrage 17 1907 March The business committee of SDESA meets in Highmore 15 September 17 18 SDESA holds its annual meeting in Pierre 15 1908 SDESA raises money by the foot literally asking people to send them enough pennies to fit on twelves inches of cardboard 15 1909 Suffragists petition the state legislature to pass a women s suffrage amendment referendum 17 June 18 SDESA holds their suffrage convention in Aberdeen 18 November 3 5 The state suffrage convention is held in Sioux Falls 18 1910s edit 1910 The Philip Suffrage Club is organized in Philip 10 A major suffrage campaign is enacted bringing in activists from around the state and country including Anna Howard Shaw 18 November The women s suffrage referendum is defeated 19 20 1911 January Activists lobby the state legislature on women s suffrage 21 February Suffragists put forward the idea that the state constitution already allowed state and county offices 21 The South Dakota Universal Franchise League is formed by Mamie Shields Pyle 8 1912 January Pro suffrage newspaper South Dakota Messenger is first published 22 July A state suffrage convention is held in Huron 23 1913 The women s suffrage amendment bill is the first to pass the legislative session 24 March South Dakota is represented in the Woman Suffrage Procession by marchers and a golden chariot 25 July SDUFL holds their annual meeting in Huron 25 1915 Winter A women s suffrage amendment is passed by the state legislature and will go to a voter referendum 26 1916 Anti suffragists become an auxiliary of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage NAOWS 27 August 7 Suffrage Day is celebrated in South Dakota 26 October The South Dakota Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage began an anti suffrage campaign that included Minnie Bronson 26 November Voter referendum on the women s suffrage amendment does not pass but more people support women s suffrage this time 28 26 1918 November 6 Women s suffrage passes with the passage of the Citizenship Amendment 29 1919 December 4 South Dakota ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment 8 1920s edit 1924 The Indian Citizenship Act is passed but South Dakota refuses to follow the law and allow Native Americans as U S Citizens to vote 30 See also editList of South Dakota suffragists Women s suffrage in South Dakota Women s suffrage in states of the United States Women s suffrage in the United StatesReferences edit a b Handy Marchello Barbara 5 August 2020 The road to women s voting rights in North Dakota Williston Herald Retrieved 2021 04 11 a b c d e Anthony 1902 p 543 a b c d Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage Before 1889 History in South Dakota 2019 10 09 Retrieved 2021 06 03 a b Robinson 1904 p 598 a b Anthony 1902 p 544 a b Anthony 1902 p 546 a b c d e f Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage History in South Dakota 2018 07 26 Retrieved 2021 05 09 a b c South Dakota and the 19th Amendment U S National Park Service Retrieved 2021 04 25 Robinson 1904 p 599 a b c d e Biographies of Women s Suffrage A History in South Dakota 2018 09 01 Retrieved 2021 05 23 Wittmayer 1981 p 224 a b c d e f Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage 1891 1896 History in South Dakota 2019 10 09 Retrieved 2021 06 03 a b c d Robinson 1904 p 601 a b Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage 1897 1898 History in South Dakota 2019 10 09 Retrieved 2021 06 03 a b c d e f g h i Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage 1899 1908 History in South Dakota 2019 10 09 Retrieved 2021 06 03 a b Harper 1922 p 585 a b c Harper 1922 p 586 a b c Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage 1909 1910 History in South Dakota 2019 10 09 Retrieved 2021 06 03 Harper 1922 p 586 587 Harper 1922 p 587 a b Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage 1911 1912 History in South Dakota 2019 10 09 Retrieved 2021 06 03 About South Dakota messenger Pierre S D 1912 1914 Chronicling America Library of Congress Retrieved 2021 06 03 Harper 1922 p 588 Harper 1922 p 589 a b Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage 1913 1914 History in South Dakota 2019 10 09 Retrieved 2021 06 03 a b c d The 1916 Campaigns History in South Dakota 20 April 2020 Retrieved 2021 05 23 Easton 1983 p 216 Easton 1983 p 215 Easton 1983 p 225 Schroedel amp Aslanian 2015 p 311 Sources edit Anthony Susan B 1902 Anthony Susan B Harper Ida Husted eds The History of Woman Suffrage Vol 4 Indianapolis The Hollenbeck Press Easton Patricia O Keefe Fall 1983 Woman Suffrage in South Dakota The Final Decade South Dakota History 13 3 206 226 via South Dakota State Historical Society Harper Ida Husted 1922 The History of Woman Suffrage New York J J Little amp Ives Company Robinson Doane 1904 History of Woman Suffrage in South Dakota History of South Dakota Together With Personal Mention of Citizens of South Dakota B F Bowen amp Co ISBN 9780598276575 Schroedel Jean Aslanian Artour 2015 Native American Vote Suppression The Case of South Dakota Race Gender amp Class 22 1 2 308 323 JSTOR 26505340 via JSTOR Wittmayer Cecelia M Summer 1981 The 1889 1890 Woman Suffrage Campaign A Need to Organize South Dakota History 11 3 200 225 via South Dakota Historical Society External links editTimeline of South Dakota Suffrage Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Timeline of women 27s suffrage in South Dakota amp oldid 1177364738, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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