Suffrage Collection 1851-2009 1880s-1920s

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Suffrage Collection 1851-2009 1880s-1920s

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Feminists, Suffragists. Comprised largely of printed materials such as pamphlets, newspaper clippings, petitions, legislative documents, articles, periodicals, and books pertaining to the enfranchisement of women primarily in the U.S., but also in England and there are small amounts of material on other countries. There are also manuscript materials including unpublished writings and correspondence. Photographs document suffrage parades, demonstrations, groups, and individuals. Suffrage memorabilia and ephemera includes broadsides, fliers, cartoons, postcards, buttons, pins, stickers, banners, playing cards, songbooks, a novel, poetry, scrapbooks, and a cookbook. U.S. and British suffrage organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the National Women's Party, and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies are well represented; and there are biographical materials, speeches, photographs, and writings by and about prominent suffragists including Carrie Chapman Catt, Jane Addams, Alice Stone Blackwell, Ida Husted Harper, Gertrude Foster Brown, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, and many others.

34 boxes, 26 volumes, microforms, and oversize materials; (14.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6322793

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Brown, Gertrude Foster, 1867-1956

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Gertrude (Foster) Brown was born in Morrison, Illinois, on July 29, 1867, to Charles Foster and Anna (Drake) Foster. Musical as a child, Brown studied piano at home and then entered the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, graduating in August 1885 after completing the four-year course in two years. She taught piano for a year at a private school in Dayton, Ohio, then studied in Berlin with Xaver Scharwenka and in Paris with Delaborde. She made her professional debut as a pianist with th...

National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931

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Ida A. Husted Harper, née Ida A. Husted, (born Feb. 18, 1851, Fairfield, Ind., U.S.—died March 14, 1931, Washington, D.C.), journalist and suffragist, remembered for her writings in the popular press for and about women and for her contributions to the documentation of the woman suffrage movement. Ida Husted married Thomas W. Harper, a lawyer, in 1871 and settled in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her husband became a prominent attorney and politician and an associate of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, a...

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

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Daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell joined her parents in writing and editing the Woman's Journal. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008749 Editor, The woman's journal and suffrage news. From the description of Letter, 1920 Apr...

Pankhurst, Christabel, Dame, 1880-1958

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Christabel Pankhurst was an English-born social activist. Along with her sister Sylvia and her mother Emmeline, she became active in the women's suffrage movement by joining the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. They later formed the more radical Women's Social and Political Union. She achieved a law degree but was unable to develop a law career because of her gender. She also lived in the United States and was active in the Second Adventist movement. She published works on women's r...

Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919

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Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Born in northern England in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1847, her family left England and immigrated to the United States. In their new country, the Shaws made several moves. After settling in the bustling port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, they uprooted again, this time ...

Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, Baron, 1871-1961

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British Labour Party statesman. From the description of Letter : Gomshall, Surrey, to Laurence Housman, 1932 Sept. 7. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25352239 ...

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Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, 1867-

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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence was born into a large family in Bristol. A rebellious child, she became a social worker in London, organizing a club for young working-class girls. Exposed to extreme poverty, she converted to Socialism; her marriage to wealthy lawyer Frederick Lawrence required his conversion, and an agreement to adopt the joint name Pethick-Lawrence. She was active in the Women's Social and Political Union, until she was expelled for disagreeing with their more radical programs. She r...

National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Formed in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. From the description of National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 bulk (1890-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979907 The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed in 1890 with the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA fought for complete political ...

Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960

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Epithet: political activist, author, and artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0003c7 British suffragist, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. From the description of The Home front Manuscript, 1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006778 Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and leading international socialist, was at the forefront of the social struggles at the beginning...

Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1929

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Emmeline Pankhurst (b. July 15, 1858, Manchester, England – d. June 14, 1928, Hampstead, England) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. Born in Moss Side, Manchester to politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 14 to the women's suffrage movement. On 18 December 1879, she married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister known for supporting women's right to vote; they had five children over the next...

National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

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The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) formed in 1911 in New York in opposition to the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which became the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibited both state and federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on gender. NAOWS coordinated the anti-suffrage activities of individual state organizations and sent speakers, funds, and literature to campaigning states in order to educate the public in the belief that wome...

American Woman Suffrage Association

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The American Woman Suffrage Association was founded in November 1869 at the convention in Cleveland organized by New England Woman Suffrage Association. In 1870, its leader, Lucy Stone, began publishing Woman's Journal as the voice of AWSA. The AWSA included both men and women, believed success could be more easily achieved through state-by-state campaigns, and employed less militant lobbying tactics. In 1890 it merged with the National Woman Suffrage Association to become National American Woma...

National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)

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