Records in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1893-1918 (inclusive).

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Records in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1893-1918 (inclusive).

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Collection consists of MWSA records from its incorporation in 1892 to 1918, including minutes, constitution, by-laws, and some correspondence, clippings, and flyers. The minutes, mostly of the board of directors or executive board, include superintendent, committee, financial, and local league reports, documenting in some detail MWSA's activities, its work with such suffrage organizations as the Political Equality Union, and disagreements with both more radical suffrage groups (such as the Congressional Union) and anti-suffragists.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7096437

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...

National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. Cambridge Division. Men's Council.

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Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association

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Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government

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