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The Pacific suffragist
First and last issue of this short-lived suffragist magazine (intended to be a bi-monthly). Mostly a digest of news, with an inaugural editorial on the suffrage movement in California.
Nine years' experience of woman suffrage in Wyoming
Pamphlet reassured men that granting suffrage to women would not be a threat. The pamphlet quotes the governor of Wyoming as saying “I approved the bill giving Suffrage to woman, without looking favorably upon it, owing to my early prejudices, but…
Series of anti-suffrage flyers linking the movement to socialism 1913, 1919
“The Red Behind the Yellow Socialism in the Wake of Suffrage” was issued by the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Formed in 1911, the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage (NAOWS) was a popular anti-suffrage organization among…
Memorial of the women of Oklahoma and Indian Territory to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention
Suffragists from Oklahoma and Indian territories met in 1904 in Oklahoma City and established the Woman Suffrage Association of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. After the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention delegates voted against women's suffrage in…
United States Circuit Courts for the District of Texas, Office Chief Supervisor of Elections, Dallas, Texas, September 24, 1882: to U.S. Supervisors of elections ... James Bentley, Chief Supervisor of Elections
Publication contains revised statues regarding elections of representatives and the duties assigned to supervisors of elections. Includes “what shall entitle a person to vote” and the penalty for hindering someone’s ability to vote.
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Before the Judiciary Committees of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights Association
An argument for universal suffrage and references to the Woman question given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Southern women and race co-operation
Position statement of the Southern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which met June 1921 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Southeast Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs was founded by Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune in 1920 to unite state club federations…
A survey of the results of women's suffrage in California made by the Committee of Political Science, Mrs. Seward A. Simons, Chairman
This survey documented the voting, registration, and political activities of women in California. Report includes: the number of women registered to vote, related legislation obtained, offices held by women, women who served on juries, and related…
A loss to all women, an injury to the State: why Elihu Root opposes woman suffrage ... Mr. Root's opinion
Elihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the Secretary of State (1905-1909), Secretary of War (1899-1904) and as the United State Senator from New York (1909-1915). Pamphlet contains the text of Elihu Root's opinion on women's…
Louisiana laws discriminating against women
Pamphlet address how Louisiana law discriminated against women, as well as equal rights legislation secured by the Woman’s Party at the Special Session of the Louisiana Legislature in November of 1921.