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Clipping : "Progressives are pledged to help organized labor" by Jane Addams, Detroit News Tribune. October 20, 1912
Addams discusses the growing Progressive Party, formed by Theodore Roosevelt and its potential to spark reform for industrial workers. She uses Roosevelt as someone who has the power and personality to "gather up the sense of social wrong and direct…
Clipping : 10,000 Women Marching for Votes. The Literary Digest. May 18, 1912
Article with photographs about the suffrage procession held in New York on May 4, 1912. The pages were removed from the original magazine.
Clipping : "Opposed to Suffragettes / Mrs. Maria Warner would not demean herself to go to the polls." [Binghamton Press.] [February 22, 1910]
Feature article about a woman named Maria Warner, also known as "Sally Piper" of Binghamton, New York, who was opposed to women's suffrage.
Clipping : "Are Women 'Inferior'?" [Binghamton Press.] [May 3, 1910]
Editorial refuting the pro-suffrage idea that women are inferior to men and should be granted the right to vote to gain equality with men. The author argues that most women do not consider themselves inferior, but rather acknowledged and respected as…
Clipping : "To Speak on Suffrage." [November 4, 1910]
Photograph with caption:
"Max Eastman, Who Will Be one of the speakers at the Suffrage meeting at the Monday Afternoon Club House on Monday Evening."
Max Eastman was an author, editor, and translator. He founded and edited several racdical…
"Max Eastman, Who Will Be one of the speakers at the Suffrage meeting at the Monday Afternoon Club House on Monday Evening."
Max Eastman was an author, editor, and translator. He founded and edited several racdical…
Clipping : "Petticoat War Again in England / Militant Suffragettes Reopen Hostilities on Houses of Parliament and furnish Amusement of Some of the U.S. Sailors." [November 18, 1910]
Account of a suffrage demonstration on Parliament in England led by Emmeline Pankhurst. 82 suffragists and supporters were arrested after bypassing a police cordon and making it to Prime Minister Asquith to demand introduction of the woman suffrage…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Mob Premier Asquith / Hundred women arrested during riot following assault on prime minister." [November 23, 1910]
Account of attack on the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith by suffragists following a session in the House of Commons where he made a campaign promise to postpone discussion of a suffrage bill until the next parliament. Rioting and violence continued…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Fight Policemen All Night / Send Augustine Birrell to bed badly crippled and beaten, smash many windows." [November 23, 1910]
Account of rioting by suffragists in England, where women stormed the home of Prime Minister Asquith, smashed windows in the homes of members of Parliament, and attacked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell. 156 women were reportedly…
Clipping : "California's First Jury of Women Only." [November 13, 1911]
Photograph with caption:
"Photograph of women who tried and acquitted editor accused of violating law in his publication. The Court allowed the jurywomen to wear their hats."
The newspaper is not identifed and the date is written on the…
"Photograph of women who tried and acquitted editor accused of violating law in his publication. The Court allowed the jurywomen to wear their hats."
The newspaper is not identifed and the date is written on the…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Get 4 Months Each in Jail / Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Tukes and Mrs. Marshall Sentenced for Stone Throwing." [March 2, 1912]
News article details the sentencing of Emmeline Pankhurst, Mabel Tuke, and Kitty Marshall for smashing two of the windows of the Prime Minister's residence. While Scotland Yard was preparing for a suffrage demonstration scheduled for the following…