Papers of Margaret Foley and Helen Elizabeth Goodnow, 1882-1965 (inclusive).

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Papers of Margaret Foley and Helen Elizabeth Goodnow, 1882-1965 (inclusive).

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The Foley papers consist of post cards and letters, most documenting some of her suffrage speaking tours in Ohio and other states. Pamphlets collected by Margaret Foley reflect her labor background. The Goodnow papers include photographs, correspondence, clippings, and an invitation, providing fragmentary information about her interests and family. A notebook documents some of her suffrage work and the Massachusetts suffrage campaign.

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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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Foley, Margaret, 1873-1957

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Margaret Lillian Foley (February 19, 1873 - June 14, 1957) was an Irish-American labor organizer, suffragist, and social worker from Boston. Known for confronting anti-suffrage candidates at political rallies, she was nicknamed the "Grand Heckler." Margaret Foley was born to Peter and Mary Foley on February 19, 1873, in the Meeting House Hill section of Dorchester. She and her sister, Celia, grew up in Roxbury and attended Girls' High School. An aspiring singer, she paid for voice lessons out...

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Foley, Margaret Urbas

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In 1870, within a year of forming the American Woman Suffrage Association, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and others founded the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. MWSA was affiliated with AWSA and shared both its goals and activities. The merger, in 1890, of AWSA with the National Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), prompted Alice Stone Blackwell and Ellen Batelle Dietrick to write a new constitution in April 1892. T...