Records of the College Equal Suffrage League in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1904-1920

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Records of the College Equal Suffrage League in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1904-1920

2 Volumes

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Essay, booklist, printed material, etc., of the College Equal Suffrage League, which worked on behalf of a constitutional amendment granting women the vote. These records are part of the Woman's Rights Collection.

2 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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College Equal Suffrage League (1900-1920)

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In 1900, suffragists Maud Wood Park and Inez Haynes (later Irwin) founded the first College Equal Suffrage League in Boston. During the following decade, Park travelled across Massachusetts and then the United States founding branches, intending to persuade recent college alumnae to take an interest in suffrage work. The hope was that the alumnae would provide the suffrage ranks with younger members and interest current college women in the cause. MWP believed that college women be...

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...