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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     Woman Suffrage HISTORY ARGUMENTS RESULTS
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     LIBRARY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section VII Woman Suffrage Campaign NO. 37
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     “THE BLUE BOOK” WOMAN SUFFRAGE HISTORY ARGUMENTS AND RESULTS EDITED BY FRANCES M. BJöRKMAN AND ANNIE G. PORRITT National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc. 171 Madison Avenue, New York Revised Edition, May,…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     The Spirit of Democracy “Democracy is not merely a form of government; it is a great spiritual force emanating from the heart of the Infinite, permeating, the universe and transforming the lives…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     CONTENTS History and Results PAGE Early History 5 Where Women Vote: (1) In the United States 24 (2) In other Countries 73 Arguments Why Women Should Vote 110 Do You Know? 130…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     ADDENDA 1917 See page 72 for gains made early in 1917. In September the Woman Suffrage Committee of the House of Representatives was created by a vote of 181 to 107. In…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     In England in June, 1917, the Representation of the People Bill passed its third reading in the British House of Commons. This bill, which is a government measure and is expected to…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     5 THE UNITED STATES History of the Movement In the United States, as in Great Britain, there were sporadic movements for women's rights, and even demands for votes for women, long before…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     6 particular care and attention are not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound to obey any laws in which we have…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     7 and Ernestine L. Rose, a polish woman who came to this country in 1836. Both these women claimed equal rights for women, and in 1836-37 Ernestine Rose circulated a petition in…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     8 Among the women who were active in this movement were Lydia Maria Child, Abby Kelly, Pauline Wright Davis, Lucretia Mott and Maria Weston Child. The question of allowing women the right…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     9 Seneca Falls, N. Y., on July 19th, 1848 and partly through interest and partly through curiosity it was well attended. Although it had been planned that only women should be present,…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     10 are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners. “Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     11 government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. “He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow she…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     12 make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. “Now in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation—in view of…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     13 Most of the legal and social injustices and restrictions, enumerated in the Declaration, have been swept away in the nearly seventy years since the Seneca Falls Convention. But for most American…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     14 Changes Since Seneca Falls Convention. The Seneca Falls Convention was so successful that it was adjourned to meet in Rochester. Although as yet there was no permanent organization of women working…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     15 signed by nearly 8,000 men and women, calling attention to the unjust laws concerning married women and asking “not only the right of suffrage, but all the political and legal rights…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     16 of Indiana had been revised the previous year, and the new constitution gave to women more liberal rights than they had yet possessed in any state. This liberality was largely due…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     17 Preference for the Negro. At the end of the war, the suffrage leaders again took up work for women. But they found that even their friends were not willing to do…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     18 Previous to 1869 there had been an Equal Rights Association which had for its object to promote the interests of both negroes and women. The XIII, XIV, and XV Amendments safeguarded…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     19 years it was the sole region in which women were given equal political rights with men. Enfranchisement by Amendment to United States Constitution. For several years after 1869 some of the…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     20 her attention to securing the passage of a new amendment—one that should do for women what the XV Amendment had done for the Negroes. In 1875 she drew up a Federal…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     21 state-by-state method alone offered any good prospects of success, and only since women have been enfranchised in twelve states has hope revived of the passage of the Federal Constitutional amendment. Federal…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     22 year and again in 1914 and 1916, it went to the Senate with a favorable majority report. In the House, after 1883, it did not again obtain a favorable majority report…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     23 vice-president. Miss Anthony remained at the head until 1900, when she was succeeded by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Four years later, Mrs. Catt was succeeded by Dr. Shaw, who remained in…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     24 Where Women Vote By Frances M. Bjorkman and Annie G. Porritt. The first modern recognition of the right of women to vote was in Kentucky, in 1838, when a very limited…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     25 which was passed in Michigan in 1893, had been pronounced unconstitutional. In addition to these small measures of voting power, a number of towns and boroughs have given the franchise to…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     26 Suffrage on taxation or bonds: Montana 1887 Iowa 1894 Louisiana 1898 New York 1901 Kansas 1903 Michigan 1908 Municipal suffrage: Kansas 1887 Illinois 1913 North Dakota 1917 Indiana 1917 Vermont 1917…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     27 WYOMING * * “Wyoming—the Pioneer,” by Lewis Edwin Theiss, in the Pictorial Review for Oct., 1913. Full suffrage granted 1869 Population (1910) Total 145,965 Males over 21 63,201 Females over 21…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     28 unquestioned in their own State. At the time statehood was applied for, a determined opposition was made in Congress to the admission of a territory with a woman suffrage clause in…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     29 States Weather Bureau, the Mayor of Cheyenne, and a long list of editors, ministers, lawyers, physicians, bankers, and the most prominent women of the State. In 1893, and again in 1899,…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     30 of the total number of ballots polled, women forming a minority of the population. In an interview, Hon. Joseph M. Carey, Governor of the State, said that “from eighty to ninety…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     31 secure the following important measures: Making gambling illegal. Giving women absolute rights over their own property. Making exactly equal inheritance by husband and wife, father and mother; giving band the mother…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     32 COLORADO Full suffrage granted 1893 Population (1910) Total 799,024 Males over 21 271,648 Females over 21 213,425 Percentage of men to women 127.3 Total vote for President in 1892, men only…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     33 even that it has failed to effect improvements. Owing to the fact that conditions are more like those in the typical American commonwealth than conditions in any of the other States…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     34 In 1899 the Colorado Legislature passed, by a vote of 45 to 3 in the House and 30 to 1 in the Senate, a resolution declaring that during time that equal…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     35 no way representing the real spirit of Colorado, have circulated statements defamatory to the credit of the State and its womanhood, we believe the times has become when all such silly…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     36 The number of women voting varies with the importance of the election or with the special interest to women in the issues involved. Helen L. Sumner, in her book, “Equal Suffrage,”…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917
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    Woman suffrage, history, arguments and results     37 L. Riddle, who had sat in the Assembly for several terms, was in that year elected State Senator. Since the adoption of equal suffrage, the office of State Superintendent of Public…
    • Contributor: Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maule, Frances - Porritt, Annie G. (Annie Gertrude)
    • Date: 1917