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Circular : Remarks on "The Ladies' Battle." / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913-1915]
Alice Stone Blackwell compiles statements made by prominent legal authorities to refute the facts and assertions made in the book "The Ladies' Battle", written by author and anti-suffragist, Molly Elliott Seawell.
The National American Woman…
The National American Woman…
Circular : Is voting an industry? / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913-1915]
Alice Stone Blackwell argues that the issues of whether women should have the right to vote and whether they should work outside of the home are separate and unrelated. She also makes the point that the most successful governments are controlled by…
Circular : "Women do not want it." / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913-1915]
Alice Stone Blackwell uses real-life examples to make the case that positive progress for women has never been made when the majority of people approve, but rather when a "persistent few."
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published…
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published…
Circular : Voting and fighting. / by Alice Stone Blackwell. [Circa 1913]
Alice Stone Blackwell addresses the idea that if women were granted the right to vote, they should also be able to fight as a soldier or a police officer. She argues that a significant portion of men are neither soldier or police officer, but still…
Circular : Do teachers need the ballot? / by Alice Stone Blackwell. 1913
Alice Stone Blackwell discusses the the amount of money appropritated for education and the difference in teacher's salaries in suffrage versus non-suffrage states.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a series of circulars…
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a series of circulars…
Leaflet : Twelve Reasons Why Women Want to Vote by Alice Stone Blackwell. Woman Suffrage Leaflet. Vol. 6, No. 4. July, 1893.
The Woman Suffrage Leaflets were one of the ongoing series published by the Woman's Journal.
Written by Alice Stone Blackwell, this list was reprinted numerous times in a variety of formats. Blackwell outlines the reasons why women want the right…
Written by Alice Stone Blackwell, this list was reprinted numerous times in a variety of formats. Blackwell outlines the reasons why women want the right…
Broadside : Objections to woman suffrage answered. [Circa 1880-1889]
A response by Henry B. Blackwell to common reasons why women should not have the vote. This piece was also published as a leaflet by the Woman's Journal.
Circular : Dorothy Dix on woman's ballot. [Circa 1913-1915]
Originally published in 1908 in the "San Francisco Examiner", Dorothy Dix (pseudonym of American journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) addresses taxation, the differences between men and women, household budgets, morals, education, and other…
Circular : Have we a democracy? / by Susan W. Fitzgerald. [Circa 1913-1915]
Suffragist, Susan Walker Fitzgerald argues that the United States is not a democracy because the power does not rest with the entire population. She claims that those opposed to women's suffrage are wealthier women who do not need the vote to improve…
Leaflet : Women and the state. Woman Suffrage Leaflet. Vol. 4, No. 12. December 1891
A reprint of an address made by Senator George F. Hoar in support of woman's suffrage, during a convention held in Amherst, Massachusetts on September 24, 1891.
Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…
Hoar was a Massachusetts lawyer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives…