Timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama

1900

• October 1: State suffrage convention held in Huntsville.^[6]

1901

• Emera Frances Griffin speaks out in favor of women's suffrage at the state constitutional convention.^[1]

1910

• March 29: Selma Suffrage League is formed.^[7]

1911

• October 22: The Equal Suffrage League of Birmingham is formed.^[8][9]

1912

• October 9: The Alabama Equal Suffrage Association (AESA) is formed in Birmingham.^[8][10]
• AESA headquarters are set up in Birmingham.^[11]
• The Huntsville Equal Suffrage Association is created.^[4]

1913

• AESA holds their first state convention in Selma at Hotel Albert and Pattie Ruffner Jacobs is elected president of the group.^[8][10]
• March 3: Delegates from Alabama march in the Woman Suffrage Procession.^[12]
• June: AESA sends representatives to the International Suffrage Alliance in Budapest.^[13]
• July: Suffrage association formed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.^[14]
• December: Representatives from AESA attend the forty-fourth annual NAWSA convention.^[15] Pattie Ruffner Jacobs speaks at the convention.^[15]

1914

• February 5: AESA holds their state convention in Huntsville.^[13] Representatives from Birmingham, Coal City, Cullman, Greensboro, Hunstville, Mobile, Montgomery, Pell City, Selma, Tuscaloosa, and Vinemont were all in attendance.^[13]
• September: Suffragists host a women's suffrage booth at the Alabama State Fair.^[16]

1915

• AESA holds their state convention in Tuscaloosa.^[11]
• AESA's headquarters are moved to Selma.^[11]
• August 25: A suffrage bill is brought to the state legislature, but does not receive enough votes to pass.^[17]
• October: AESA starts to publish the Alabama Suffrage Bulletin.^[18]

1916

• Alabama Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (AAOWS) was formed.^[19]
• February 9: AESA holds its state convention in Gadsden.^[20]

1917

• February 12–13: AESA holds the state convention in Birmingham.^[20] Around 81 suffrage clubs report to the convention.^[21] A suffrage school is held afterwards with around 200 students.^[21]

1918

• May 7–8: AESA holds its state convention in Selma.^[21]

1919

• The Alabama Woman's Anti-Ratification League (AWARL) is formed.^[22]
• September 22: Alabama rejects the Nineteenth Amendment.^[23]

1953

• September 8: Alabama ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment.^[23]

1964

• January 23: Poll taxes are abolished through the Twenty-Fourth Amendment.^[24]

1965

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 provides African-American women full access to the right to vote.^[25]

• List of Alabama suffragists
• Women's suffrage in Alabama
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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