Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association

Its members organized marches, wrote petitions and letters, gathered signatures, gave speeches, and published pamphlets and broadsheets to compel the Minnesota Legislature to pass legislation that recognized their right to vote.

As a result of the movement's efforts, the legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1919, which prohibited the denial of citizens to vote based on sex.

Seeing the need for a statewide agency, 14 women formed the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA) in Hastings in 1881.

President Julia Bullard Nelson worked with Ignatius Donnelly, a populist state senator.

[2] After the failure of the 1893 amendment, the suffrage movement continued, but MWSA was unable to build on its earlier success.

The MWSA and its ally, the Political Equality Club, placed women's suffrage before the state legislature every session.

During this period, the MWSA had to contend with a rival organization, a Minnesota branch of the National Woman's Party (NWP).

With their right to vote secured, the MWSA became the Minnesota chapter of the League of Women Voters,[3] selecting Clara Ueland as their first president.

The League was still active in Minnesota politics in the 21st Century, publishing a voting guide to inform voters on candidate positions on issues affecting women.