Timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama

1867

• Pierce Burton writes an article supporting women's right to vote in Alabama.[1]

1868

• Priscilla Holmes Drake is the only representative from Alabama to the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).[2]

1892

• Women's suffrage groups formed in New Decatur and Verbena.[3]

1893

• The Alabama Woman Suffrage Organization is founded.[3]

1894

• The Huntsville League for Woman Suffrage is created.[4]

1895

• Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt speak in Alabama.[5]

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]

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Burnes, Valerie Pope (January 2020). "Will Alabama Women Vote?: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Alabama from 1890-1920". Alabama Review. 73 (1): 28–39. doi:10.1353/ala.2020.0011. S2CID 219811342 – via Project MUSE.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Rogers, William Warren; Ward, Robert David (2018). "Women in Alabama from 1865 to 1920". Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Bicentennial ed.). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 376–391. ISBN 9780817391669 – via Project MUSE.
• Thomas, Mary Martha (1992). The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817360108.