The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 as a part of the International Council of Women, a new organization intended to establish connections between women's rights organizations across the world. May Wright Sewall was…
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…
Reprint of an article from the St. Louis Star praising Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell (Elizabeth Crannell) for the address she delivered the day before to the Committee on Resolutions at the Republican National Convention, held in St. Louis.
Reprint of an address by James Curley, mayor of Boston from 1914-1919, at Mechanics Hall. Curley argues that most reform laws, including improved labor laws, extension of the school age, public health laws, and employee pension were all met with…
Reprint of an article from the Chicago Chronicle with endorsements of Mrs. W. Winslow (Elizabeth) Crannell's address delivered the day before to the Committee on Resolutions at the Democractic National Convention, held in Chicago.
Address delivered by Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York, in opposition to women's suffrage.
Address delivered by Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York, in opposition to any action on the woman suffrage amendment.
Crannell was the Chairman of the Anti-Suffrage Association of the 3rd Judicial District in New York. In her address she asks members to refuse to take action on the woman suffrage amendment.
She counters arguments regarding equal pay, taxation…
A brief report on the 1915 International Congress of Women, comprised of women from Europe and North America, and held at the Hague to discuss proposals for a peaceful end to the war. This report includes a list of the International Committee of the…
Two speeches given by famed abolitionist and orator, Wendell Phillips. The first is entitled "The Lesson of the Hour." The second, entitled "Progress" was addressed to the twenty-eighth Congregational Society. In the second, Phillips discusses the…