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  • Tags: Gender roles

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Answers the question "isn't it true" to issues that support women being granted the right to vote.

The South Dakota Universal Franchise League was organized in 1911 by Mary Shields ("Mamie") Pyle. South Dakota granted women the right to vote in…

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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…

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Column, entitled "Suffrage Notes." The author describes a talk given by Herbert Miller, Professor of Sociology at Olivet College, in support of votes for women.

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Reproductions of drawings by John Clubb, William O'Loughlin, Ralph Wilder, and Guy Spencer, originally published in the Rochester Herald, Portland Telegram, Chicago Record Herald, and Omaha World Herald.

The cartoons depict the National American…

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Page from an issue of Life Magazine with cartoon by artist, A.B. Walker containing humorous predictions about what life may be like in 1950. The drawing contains many vignettes of women in 1950, including: a woman president of the United States, the…

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Flier distributed by the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage emphasizing woman's duty to her family and her children.

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Caricature of a woman wearing a "Women's Rights" sash, holding a ballot. On one side are her children and on the other, the ballot box. Along the top are a series of voting booths, showing only the lower portion with people's legs and feet.

The…

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Flier listing objections to woman's suffrage and responses to refute those statements, "People Say . . . We Say . . . "

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Essay written by an unidentified author who argues against women's suffrage and discusses the importance of gender roles,

The author makes reference to England and Prime Minister William Gladstone.

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In a letter addressed to Mrs. Robert Garrett, president of the Maryland Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, Cardinal James Gibbons discusses the reasons for his opposition to woman's right to vote.
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