Papers, 1923-1964, 1945-1946 (bulk)

Pollitzer, Anita, 1894-1975

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Anita Lily Pollitzer (October 31, 1894 – July 3, 1975) was an American photographer and suffragist. Anita Lily Pollitzer was born October 31, 1894, in Charleston, South Carolina. Her parents were Clara Guinzburg Pollitzer, the daughter of an immigrant rabbi from Prague, and Gustave Pollitzer, who ran a cotton company at Charleston, South Carolina. She had two sisters, Carrie (born 1881) and Mabel (born 1885) and a brother, Richard. Anita was raised Jewish and, as a young woman, taught Sabb...

Marks, Jeannette Augustus, 1875-1964

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Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. Born on August 16, 1875 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, her parents were Jeannette Holmes (née Colwell) and William Dennis Marks, who was the president of the Philadelphia Edison Company, after working at University of Pennsylvania, where he taught engineering. As her parents were estranged, Marks grew up mainly in the company of her mother and younger sister, Mabel, alternating homes be...

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...

United Nations. Commission on the Status of Women

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Wright, Alice Morgan, 1881-1975

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Alice Morgan Wright and friend, n.d. Alice Morgan Wright, sculptor, suffragist, and animal welfare advocate, the daughter of Henry Romeyn Wright, a prosperous wholesale grocer, and Emma Jane Morgan, was born on October 10, 1881, in Albany, New York. She attended the St. Agnes School in Albany (now the Doane Stuart School) and then graduated from Smith College in 1904. Wright worked for the Collegiate Equal Suffrage League and began studying sculpture at the ...

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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The Republican Party is a national political party in the United States, and was founded in 1854. In the 1864 election, the party took the name National Union Party to allow the participation of Democrats. From the description of Republican Party tickets, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 496362231 From the guide to the Republican Party tickets, 1864, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Crawford, Mary Sinclair

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Owens, Mary Elizabeth, 1949-

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North Dakota State Chairman for the National Woman's Party. From the description of Papers, 1945. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17950059 ...

Married Women's Association (Great Britain)

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Murrell, Ethel Ernest.

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Wells, Agnes E., 1876-1959

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Dean of Women at Indiana University and professor of mathematics and astronomy there, Wells (University of Michigan, B.A., 1903; Carleton College, M.S., 1916, University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1924) is best remembered for her contributions to guidance and housing for women students. She was active in many educational associations, the National Woman's Party, and the Michigan State Society. From the description of Papers, 1894-1959 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 1...

Wiley, Anna Kelton, 1877-1964

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Consumers' rights reformer, feminist, and club woman of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers of Anna Kelton Wiley, 1798-1964 (bulk 1925-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063964 A member of many Washington, D.C., clubs, ranging from the Daughters of the American Revolution to the Consumers' League, Wiley spent five days in jail for picketing the White House in 1917 for women's suffrage. She was chairman of the National Woman's Party (1930-1932 and 1940-1942),...