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    Mobilizing woman-power This book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter emphasizes the importance of women's contributions to World War I. It helps demostrate the link British and American suffragists were making between wartime sacrifice and women's disenfranchisement. There is an interesting foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, which reveals his position on woman suffrage.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Blatch, Harriot Stanton
    • Date: 1918

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    Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in Philadelphia. May 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th, 1838 This pamphlet helps to emphasize the relationship between abolitionism and women's rights.
    • Contributor: Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
    • Date: 1838

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    From pinafores to politics This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her financial support to the shirtwaist workers' strike in 1909. In addition, with Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont and Miss Anne Morgan, she helped organize a strike meeting of the WTUL at...
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Harriman, Florence Jaffray
    • Date: 1923
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    The trade union woman The book examines the history of women's labor organizations and the relationship of working-class women to the campaign for woman suffrage.
    • Contributor: Henry, Alice - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1915

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    Taxation of women in Massachusetts This pamphlet examines the legal and political status of women in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1871. It includes a brief appendix tabulating the amount women have paid in taxes while being denied the right to vote.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Bowditch, William I. (William Ingersoll)
    • Date: 1875

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    Social evils, their causes and cure : being a brief discussion of the social status, with reference to methods of reform In this pamphlet, the author addresses a number of issues contributing to problems in contemporary society, among them poor diet, prostitution, marriage and divorce, the plight of orphans, and women in prisons. She suggests, in part, that better education for women and their enfranchisement will be a part of the remedy for these social evils.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - King, Maria M. - Stone, Lucy
    • Date: 1870

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    Consistent democracy : the elective franchise for women These are very brief (paragraph-length) statements of support for woman suffrage. Among the "prominent men" included are Henry Ward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, Horace Greeley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel J. May, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, William H. Channing, the Ohio Senate, and the Wisconsin legislature.
    • Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)
    • Date: 1858

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    An address on woman's rights : delivered before the people's Sunday meeting, in Cochituate Hall, on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19th, 1851 No. 3 in a vol. with binder's title: Miscellaneous speeches. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm (Microfilm O1291 reel 221, no.10E). LAC tnb 2019-07-30 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-08-05 review LAC knj 2022-06-29 update (1 card) LAC knj 2022-07-22 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2022-07-28
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Rose, Ernestine L. (Ernestine Louise) - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1851

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    Powers of Congress to prohibit inequality, caste and oligarchy of the skin No. 32 in a collection of pamphlets lettered: Miscellaneous pamphlets, etc. Signed and annotated by Susan B. Anthony. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Inscribed: This is one of the speeches of Senator Sumner of which he said to me in 1870 when I asked him to decla[re pub]licly that the U. S. Constitution guaranteed to women the...
    • Contributor: Sumner, Charles - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress Senate - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Shaw, Anna Howard - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1869

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    The mortality of nations : an address delivered before the American Equal Rights Association, in New York, Thursday evening, May 9, 1867 No. 37 in a collection of pamphlets lettered: Miscellaneous speeches, etc. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-07-31 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-08-05 review LAC knj 2022-07-25 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2022-08-25
    • Contributor: Pillsbury, Parker - American Equal Rights Association - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1867

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    Woman's right to preach the gospel : a sermon, preached at the ordination of the Rev. Miss Antoinette L. Brown, at South Butler, Wayne County, N.Y., Sept. 15, 1853 This sermon was preached at the ordination of Antoinette L. Brown, on 15 September 1853. Brown was one of the first women to be ordained in the Congregational church.
    • Contributor: Lee, Luther - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853

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    Woman as God made her : the true woman Justin D. Fulton was pastor of the Union Temple Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His pamphlet employs traditional arguments from scripture as evidence for why women should not be enfranchised.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Fulton, Justin D. (Justin Dewey)
    • Date: 1869

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    A sermon of the public function of woman : preached at the Music Hall, March 27, 1853 This sermon was one of a long series of sermons delivered by Parker on the "spiritual development of the human race." In one section containing four sermons devoted to women, Parker argues that women were prevented from voting primarily by the efforts of men.
    • Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Yerrinton, J. M. W. (James Manning Winchell) - Stone, Lucy - Parker, Theodore - Leighton, Rufus - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853

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    American women in civic work Each woman included in this book attained some level of prominence in politics, education, or social reform.
    • Contributor: Bennett, Helen Christine - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
    • Date: 1915

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    Toward equal rights for men and women The author of this book, which includes a brief introduction by Sophonisba Breckenridge, maintains that an Equal Rights Amendment, such as the one then being proposed by Alice Paul and the Woman's Party, would lead to chaos and confusion. She argues that absolute equality with men would strip away certain forms of protective legislation from which certain groups of women benefit.
    • Contributor: Smith, Ethel Marion - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1929

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    Laws affecting women and children in the suffrage and non-suffrage states This book examines women's legal status in the areas of protective labor legislation for women and children, minimum wage laws, mothers' pensions, the property rights of married women, child custody, age of consent, control of the liquor traffic, and prostitution. Like Jessie Cassidy's "The legal status of women," this volume deals with each of these areas on a state-by-state basis. It includes a black-and-white...
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States : assembled in Washington, D.C., February 22 to 25, 1891 The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated associations all pledged to working for issues concerning women, among them, the right to vote. The organization met triennially at first, later biennially.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Avery, Rachel Foster - National Council of Women of the United States. Meeting
    • Date: 1891

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    The first convention ever called to discuss the civil and political rights of women, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848 Caption title. "This call was published in the Seneca County courier, July 14, 1848, without any signatures. The movers of this convention, who drafted the call, the declaration and resolutions were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane C. Hunt"--Footnote. Includes p. [1] first and closing paragraphs of Mrs. Stanton's address. Also available in digital form on the...
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
    • Date: 1848

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    The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at West Chester, Pa., June 2d and 3d, 1852 This meeting was presided over by Lucretia Mott, who also addressed the assembly.
    • Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
    • Date: 1852

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    The rights and condition of women : a sermon, preached in Syracuse, Nov., 1845 Reprint of a sermon delivered by May in Syracuse, New York in November, 1845. It follows the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 but precedes the first women's rights convention in America by more than two and a half years.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph)
    • Date: 1853

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    Discourse on woman This lecture by Mott, delivered 17 December 1849, was in response to one by an unidentified lecturer criticizing the demand for equal rights for women. She makes a very gentle appeal here for women's enfranchisement, placing emphasis instead on the injustices done to women in marriage.
    • Contributor: Mott, Lucretia - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
    • Date: 1850

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    Woman's rights In this pamphlet, clergyman John Todd argues that women are not equal to men because they cannot invent or reason extensively. A good examination of the separate spheres ideology.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Todd, John
    • Date: 1867

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    The new womanhood Winnifred Harper Cooley was the daughter of Ida Husted Harper, one of the authors of the multi-volume "History of Woman Suffrage." This book, written during the period of time when Anna Howard Shaw was president of NAWSA, includes some interesting chapters on the potential power of women's clubs and on the argument for woman suffrage.
    • Contributor: Cooley, Winnifred Harper - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
    • Date: 1904

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    Proceedings at the presentation to the Hon. Robert Dale Owen of a silver pitcher, on behalf of the women of Indiana, on the 28th day of May, 1851 In 1851, Indiana adopted a state constitution that included a measure protecting the property rights of married women. Robert Dale Owen was the chief architect of this provision and the women of Indiana honored him with a silver pitcher. This pamphlet details the ceremony surrounding this presentation, including speeches by Professor W.C. Larrabee of Indian Asbury University and Robert Dale Owen. What is interesting...
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1851

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    And the truth shall make you free" : a speech on the principles of social freedom, delivered in Steinway Hall, Nov. 20, 1871
    Speech on the principles of social freedom     This speech defends Woodhull's advocacy of free love or social freedom, which served to create divisions within the women's rights movement and led eventually to her ostracism by some women's rights associations.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin)
    • Date: 1871

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