Records of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1916-1920

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Records of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1916-1920

1916-1920

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Executive board minutes of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, a civic and suffrage organization. These records are part of the Woman's Rights Collection.

4 Volumes

eng, Latn

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government

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Suffragists Maud Wood Park, Pauline Agassiz Shaw, and Mary Hutcheson Page were among those who in 1901 founded the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG) "to promote a better civic life, the true development of the home and the welfare of the family, through the exercise of suffrage on the part of the women citizens of Boston." After 1920, BESAGG became the Boston League of Women Voters. For further historical information see Lois Bannister Merk, Massachusetts and the Wom...