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The Suffragist was the official newspaper of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, later the National Woman's Party, from 1913 until 1921.Created to generate financial and public support for the federal suffrage amendment, the newspaper…

Full color cartoon published in Puck Magazine, a weekly humor magazine first published in 1871 until 1918. This page has been removed from the original issue.

Caption: "For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in…

Reproductions of drawings by Billy DeBeck and William Kemp Starrett, originally published in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and the Knickerbocker Press.

The cartoons depict Rosalie Jones' suffrage hike from Manhattan to Albany, New York to bring…

Rheta Childe Dorr was an author, journalist, newspaper editor, and suffragist. She worked for the New York Evening Post, wrote articles for the Broadway Magazine, and was the first editor of the National Woman's Party publication, The Suffragist. She…

Two articles:

The first is a review of the campaign for women's suffrage in Michigan as the election approaches. The article includes a statement by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association.

The second is an editorial by Charles R. Evans, in…

Front page of Cartoons magazine with a reproduction of a drawing by Fontaine F. Fox originally published in the Chicago Post.

The illustration shows a procession of women carrying Votes for Women signs and holding cats on leashes, surrounded by…

The article describes the election in Oskaloosa, Kansas where the Mayoral and City Council seats were filled entirely by women after the previous government proved remiss in their duties; the article specifically cites issues related to public…

The Liberator (1831-1865) was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp. The newspaper called for the "Immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves." The Liberator also advocated for women's rights by printing…

Gilman discusses recent militant and sometimes violent tactics by suffragists in England and perceptions of violence by women. In order to conduct a fair evaluation of these tactics, she asks: Is violence ever justifiable? Are women ever justified in…

The Forerunner was a monthly journal on women's rights and related issues, edited (and mostly written) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Forerunner ran for seven volumes, starting with the November 1909 issue. The publication never paid for itself and…