Handbill : Afro-Americans : Stop! Read! Think! [1912]
African Americans--Political activty
Boswell, Helen Varick
Campaign literature
Presidents--United States--Election--1912
Voting
Republican National Committee (U.S.). Department of Woman's Work
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Women--Political activity
Wood, Mary
Campaign literature distributed by the Woman's Department of the Republican National Committee during the 1912 presidential election. The flier urged African Americans to vote for incumbent President Taft over former President Theodore Roosevelt or Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson because Taft would protect their freedom, jobs, and education.
Republican National Committee (U.S.). Department of Woman's Work
Republican National Committee (U.S.). Department of Woman's Work
[1912]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1912.10
Flier : Two Ways. National American Woman Suffrage Association. [Circa 1914-1920]
Afro-Americans--Suffrage
Constitutional amendments
Indians of North America
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Encourages men to vote for a congressman who favors the federal suffrage amendment. Demands votes for women through the same process as "Indians" and "Negroes."
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
[Circa 1914-1920]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1000.23
Broadside : The Negro and the new social order (Extracts from the Messenger). [1919]
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Social conditions
Anti-suffrage
Civil rights--United States
Constitutional amendments
Equality
Intermarriage
Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama
Messenger
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
Race discrimination--United States
Randolph, A. Philip--(Asa Philip),--1889-1979
States' rights (American politics)
Women--Suffrage--Alabama
The broadside, published by the Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama contains excerpts from "The Negro and the New Social Order," published in The Messenger, a magazine founded in 1917 by A. Phillip Randolph and Chandler Owen as the "only radical Negro magazine in America."
Extracts pulled include those for universal suffrage, social equality, and intermarriage. The League encourages voters to reject the Susan B. Anthony amendment in the name of states' rights. The League was a state affiliate of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
The Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Ala. : Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama
[1919]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1919.01
Alabama
Pamphlet : The blank-cartridge ballot. [Circa 1900]
African Americans--Suffrage
Anti-suffrage literature
Ballot
Education of women
Immigrants
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Rossiter Johnson was a prominent author and editor whose wife, Helen Kendrick Johnson, also a writer, was active in the anti-suffrage movement.
The author discusses reasons why women's suffrage would be a mistake, including the idea that African American and immigrant voters already cast "blank cartridge" ballots with no impact on the outcome of an election; granting the vote to women would present the same problem. He asserts that women would wield more influence by educating and influencing those who already have the right to vote.
Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931
New York, J.J. O'Brien & Son
15 p.
English
DOCU.1000.06