Records, 1909-1952.

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Records, 1909-1952.

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Correspondence, publications, clippings, and other records documenting activism and advocacy of this this non-partisan political group during the first half of the 20th century, including issues such as securing the vote for women, voters' rights, Equal Suffrage League, the Nineteenth Amendment, and other issues. [Later records held by South Carolina Political Collections, also located at USC]. Chiefly correspondence of Emma Anderson Dunovant, Eulalie Chafee Salley, Anna Howard Shaw, Harriet Powe Lynch, Josiah Morse, Niels Christensen, Benjamin R. Tillman, and others re voters' rights, Equal Suffrage League, Nineteenth Amendment, and the League of Women Voters. Volumes consist of scrapbooks, 1912-1934 (in two volumes) and volume, 1947-1952, and subscription list of members, 1926 (1 volume). Unbound scrapbooks, 1912-1934 (2 vol.), consisting of newspaper clippings re women's rights; Eighteenth Amendment and the beginning of Prohibition of alcohol sales; Nineteenth Amendment allowing women to vote; Equal Suffrage League; school of Col. [John J.] Dargan in Darlington, S.C., activities of the members, including Emma Anderson Dunovant, Eulalie Chafee Salley, Caroline Swaffield, Bertha T. Munsell, Harriet Powe Lynch, Mrs. John Gary Evans, Mrs. Julian J. Matheson, Mrs. F.M. Hicklin, Mrs. Henry Martin, Mrs. W.C. Cathcart, Mrs. A S. Hammond, Miss Wil Lou Gray, Mrs. E.S. Moorer, and others; [collection includes a bound photocopy of second scrapbook for years 1922-1934]. Scrapbook, 1947-1952, consisting of correspondence, minutes, clippings, and pamphlets chiefly re a reorganization of the Columbia Chapter of the League at the time the chapters in Charleston, Columbia, and Spartanburg, S.C., merged to form the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. Places represented include Columbia, Edgefield, Aiken, Beaufort, S.C., and elsewhere.

5 v. [3 bound, 2 unbound]

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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