
with the aims of securing the enfranchisement of women in every state and supporting
women’s struggle abroad; removing remaining legal discrimination against women;
president. Looking forward to women’s participation in the presidential election of 1920,
in Edison held special meetings for female voters. At a meeting organized by the Dunellen
Although the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 was a great victory,
inequities in voting still remained. While African American women could vote in New
Jersey, poll taxes, literacy tests, and other discriminatory tactics prevented most black
and the right to vote until 1924, although in some states they had to wait much longer.
passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 barred discriminatory practices like literary tests
June Sicknick (in carriage) and Edna Keller
Sicknick (standing) in the parade for the
celebration of South River’s 200th anniversary,
September 25, 1920.
Courtesy South River Historical and Preservation Society
Lillian Feickert for Senate broadside,1928
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