4/15/2024 0 Comments Susan monica langstonMunicipal suffrage : correspondence relating to the campaign for (1887), Manuscript of the first speech delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton inĬonstitution, by-laws and minutes of the Woman Suffrage AssociationĬorrespondence about portrait of Mrs. Related Records and CollectionsĬampaign of 1867: Letters received by Samuel Newitt Wood Also, being microfilmed, this collection becomes accessible to a wider range of people, as manuscript collections on microfilm are available through interlibrary loan. This manuscript collection was microfilmed in order to preserve the original papers (already becoming fragile and brittle), to protect them from being handled by patrons, and to provide for greater security. Used in conjunction with this finding aid, locating a particular series on this microfilm roll becomes more convenient. Each series in this collection is marked with a microfilm target to indicate the beginning of the series. Microfilm roll MF 1049 contains the Woman Suffrage history collection in its entirety. History of woman suffrage / by Lucy Browne Johnston, n.d. Municipal suffrage : manuscript copies, 1887 Municipal suffrage : correspondence relating to the campaign for (1887), 1887-1901 Kansas Equal Suffrage Association Fair (1892), 1891-1892 AdamsĬorrespondence about portrait of Mrs. Wallace, to an unspecified addressee.Ĭatharine P. Manuscript of the first speech delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Kansas, November 1867Ĭonstitution, by-laws and minutes of the Woman Suffrage Association of Topeka, 1880-1881Ĭatharine P. Contents ListĬampaign of 1867 : letters received by Samuel Newitt Wood A brief examination of the collection outline will familiarize the researcher with the contents and arrangement of the collection for faster and easier use. This collection is divided into fourteen different series, and is arranged mostly in a chronological order. Also, there are organizational records of some of the better known suffrage organizations: the American Equal Rights Association, the Kansas Equal Rights Association, and the Woman Suffrage Association. Though these papers are relatively few in number, they do involve many people prominent in the suffrage movement such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. The manuscripts in this collection originally came from a variety of different sources, and were brought together into one collection because of their subject matter.įor any researcher or scholar of the woman suffrage movement, this collection offers a great deal of primary sources. Allen, the Legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to allow universal women’s suffrage. The final campaign in the woman suffrage movement came in 1919 when, upon the request of Governor Henry J. This amendment became a part of the state constitution in 1912. The measure passed, and Governor Stubbs signed the bill on February 12, 1911. They also entertained their wives so that they in turn might influence their husbands. heavily lobbied each and every member of the Kansas House and Senate. The governor’s proposal ignited another campaign to expand the franchise for women. Stubbs was reelected in 1910, he advised the Legislature to commence debating the issue of women’s suffrage. Under the leadership of Catherine Hoffman, then president of the Equal Suffrage Association, that organization used the slogan “Votes for Women” in its campaign. The next big campaign to effect change in the electorate took place in 1910. From that time onward, the Women’s Equal Suffrage Association staged a number of campaigns in an effort to sway the state Legislature to grant women full suffrage in state elections. The Kansas State Legislature in 1887 granted women the right to vote in municipal elections. They were successful only in securing the right for women to vote in local school district elections. At first, there was an association of twenty-five men and women whose objective was to convince the delegates of the state constitutional convention to open the franchise to women and to African Americans. In Kansas, the woman suffrage movement began in 1859, as the territory was in the process of preparing for statehood. To characterize the nature of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Kansas, it seems as if the suffragette movement achieved success in roughly twenty-five year increments. Woman Suffrage history collection, 1867-1891
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