Women’s Suffrage in the Late 19th Century
In 1873, as a consequence of the advent of compulsory public education in New Jersey,
women gained the right to serve as
school trustees. New Jersey women
also lobbied successfully for bills
granting them greater rights in child
custody disputes and more control
over property and earnings. Except
gradually suspended its activities.
amendment on behalf of women’s
shall not be denied or abridged by
was introduced in Congress on a regular basis over the span of forty years from 1878
through 1918.
During this period, Middlesex County, like other areas throughout the
country, was changing, becoming increasingly industrialized and urbanized. Immigrants
Brunswick and Perth Amboy. Beginning in the 1890s, African Americans escaping
Bird’s Eye View, New Brunswick, 1880
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