Records, 1939-1978 (bulk 1950-1978)

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

League of Women Voters of Sangamon County (Ill.)

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Springfield Public Schools (Springfield, Ill.). District 186

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League of Women Voters of Springfield, Ill.

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League of Women Voters of the Springfield Area (Springfield, Ill.)

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Organization of local voting-age women interested in promoting political responsibility by informing citizens of governmental processes and issues, and urging constructive change in government. Organized as the League of Women Voters of Sangamon County and interested in local government and industry, the first meeting was sponsored by Mrs. Ralph McNulty and Florence Fifer Bohrer in April of 1939. The name was changed in 1954 to the League of Women Voters of Springfield, ...

Illinois. Constitutional Convention, 1969-1970

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Convention called to write a new constitution to replace the 1870 Illinois constitution, with Samuel Witwer chosen as president. A Constitution Study Commission had been formed in 1965 to determine the need for a convention. The convention organized nine committees to study issues and organization of state government in order to update the old constitution. The new constitution was adopted Sept. 3, 1970 and ratified by the voters on December 15, 1970. From the description of Records,...

League of Women Voters of Illinois

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The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook County merged. The League's objectives are to encourage full participation in the electoral process and to lobby the government for legislation of special concern to women. Suc...