page_title: Women's suffrage in states of the United States
section_title: New York
hierarchical_section_title: Women's suffrage in states of the United States / States and regions / East / New York
caption_attribution_description: English: Rose Sanderson Women's suffragists demonstrate in February 1913. The triangular pennants read "VOTES FOR WOMEN". The negative is labeled "ROSE SANDERSON", the woman holding the trumpet. An adjacent photograph in the series (LC-DIG-ggbain-12482) contains a flyer labeled "COME AND WATCH SUFFRAGE SPREAD" that identifies the event as one sponsored by the National Suffrage Association. MEDIUM: 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 5 × 7 in. or smaller. Русский: Роуз Сандерсон Демонстрация суфражисток в феврале 1913 г. На треугольном вымпеле читается надпись «ГОЛОСОВАНИЕ - ЖЕНЩИНАМ». Негатив снимка помечен словами «Роуз Сандерсон», это имя женщины, держащей трубу.
context_page_description: Women's suffrage in states of the United States refers to women's right to vote in individual states of that country. Suffrage was established on a full or partial basis by various towns, counties, states and territories during the latter decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. As women received the right to vote in some places, they began running for public office and gaining positions as school board members, county clerks, state legislators, judges, and, in the case of Jeannette Rankin, as a Member of Congress.
  The campaign to establish women's right to vote in the states was conducted simultaneously with the campaign for an amendment to the United States Constitution that would establish that right fully in all states. That campaign succeeded with the ratification of Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
context_section_description: Suffragists, knowing that women's suffrage could not succeed without support, put their hope in the Equal Rights Association and pushed for a campaign for universal suffrage.  From April until November 1867, women furiously campaigned, distributing thousands of pamphlets and speaking in numerous locations for the cause.  Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton focused their attentions on New York, while Stone and Blackwell headed to Kansas, where the November election would be taking place.
  During the New York Constitutional Convention, held on June 4, 1867, Horace Greeley, the chairman of the committee on Suffrage and an ardent supporter of women's suffrage over the previous 20 years, betrayed the women's movement and submitted a report in favor of removal of property qualification for free black men, but against women's suffrage.  New York legislators supported the report by a vote of 125 to 19.
  Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, focused on New York where she succeeded in mobilizing many working-class women, even as she continued to collaborate with prominent society women. She could organize militant street protests while still working expertly in backroom politics to neutralize the opposition of Sharp Hall politicians who feared the women would vote for prohibition.  New York finally joined the procession in 1917 after Tammany Hall ended its opposition.
caption: U.S. women suffragists demonstrating for the right to vote, February 1913
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