Papers, 1888-1957 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1888-1957 (inclusive).

Collection includes address book, with letterheads of many state suffrage leagues listing board members; two letters to Foley, 1916, 1920; clippings re: Foley; reviews of a primer by Anna B. Badlam; Fifth Report of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association, 1910; suffrage buttons, etc.

3 folders.

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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...

Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association

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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...

Badlam, Anna B.

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Boston Equal Suffrage Association.

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