Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
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The League planned to organize its 1,000 members into local civic centers according to the wards where they lived. The purpose of the civic centers was to train men and women in the responsibilities of citizenship.]]> Ellicott, Elizabeth King, 1858-1914]]> DOCU.1910.11]]> Ellicott, Elizabeth King, 1858-1914
Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Women--Suffrage--Maryland]]> Ellicott, Elizabeth King, 1858-1914]]> DOCU.1910.11]]> Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
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Women--Suffrage--Maryland]]> Ellicott, Elizabeth King, 1858-1914]]> Maryland. Constitution (1910)
Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates
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Women--Suffrage--Maryland]]> "possess any one of the following qualifications, to wit: (a) If such person is qualified to vote for members of the House of Delegates; or (b) if he or she can read of write, from dictation, any paragraph or sentence of more than five lines contained in the Constitution of Maryland; or (c) if he or she is assessed with property in said city to the amount of $300 and has paid taxes thereon for at least two years preceding the election at which he or she offers to vote."
The bill was defeated. The Maryland legislature did not amend the state constitution to allow women to vote until after the 19th amendment was passed in 1920. Maryland finally ratified the amendment on May 29, 1941.]]>