[Recollections] [sound recording]. [unknown]

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[Recollections] [sound recording]. [unknown]

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Brief account of Dorothy Gruening's experience at Vassar College, when the president and trustees refused to allow undergraduates to hold a suffrage parade. Gruening also mentions that she was present in 1918 when Congress passed the 19th Amendment.

1 sound tape reel (5 min.) : analog, 7-1/2 ips ; 7 in.

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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Milholland, Inez, 1886-1916

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Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916) was a suffragist, labor lawyer, socialist, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America. She was active in the National Woman's Party and a key participant in the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession. Born to a wealthy family in Brooklyn, New York, Milholland grew up in New York City and London. While in England, she met the militant suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst and became a poli...

Gruening, Dorothy Smith.

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Dorothy Elizabeth Smith Gruening graduated from Vassar College (1909), studied at Simmons College and Boston University, and worked as the general secretary of the Salem (Mass.) Young Women's Association. In 1915, she married writer and newspaperman Ernest H. Gruening. They lived in Maine, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and abroad, until 1939, when President Roosevelt appointed Ernest Gruening governor of Alaska. In the 1950s he served as senator from Alaska. From the description of [Re...

Vassar College.

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