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Virginia and Women's Suffrage
Despite the socio-political changes that occurred during Reconstruction, women at the dawn of the twentieth century still lacked a basic right of citizenship: the vote.
Even before the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, American women clamored for full citizenship. Unlike women in the North and West, southerners were reluctant to form pro-suffrage organizations because of opposition from local governments. By 1909, the tide of sentiment shifted; Lila Meade Valentine, Adèle Clark, Ellen Glasgow, and other Virginia women launched the operations of Virginia‘s Equal Suffrage League. |