Banking law
Banks and banking--Law and legislation
Election officials
Election workers]]>
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

Her speech to Congress in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two.]]>
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York
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citizenship, guaranteed in by the Constitution through the Fourteenth Amendment. Since women were citizens, they already had the right to vote. She never accepted the idea that women needed another constitutional amendment to vote, and referred to this as her "crowning constitutional argument."

Her speech to the Senate in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two. At the bottom of page two is a handwritten note: "Introduced in the Senate...Jan. 16th 1873"]]>
"The Crowning Constitutional Argument"]]>
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Employment--United States
Women social reformers]]>

Thomas received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1877 and that same year, was the first woman to enter Johns Hopkins University at the graduate level. At Bryn Mawr, she was the Dean of the College and the first Professor of English. Thomas is best known for helping to facilitate the admission of women to the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1893. She raised thousands of dollars for the National American Woman Suffrage Association and, in 1908, became the first president of the National College Women's Equal Suffrage League.]]>
Boston (Mass.) -- Newspapers
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843
Suffolk County (Mass.) -- Newspapers
The Liberator]]>

Over its 35 year run, Garrison published 1,820 issues, ending in 1865 after the end of the Civil War. This issue was the newspaper's final issue. It includes a poem by a woman identified as Carrie from Brooklyn, New York, entitled "A Farewell to the Liberator." There are also tributes to Garrison and to the paper.
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Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843]]> J.B. Yerrinton & Son, Printers]]>
Election officials
Greathouse, Charles A.
Indiana--General assembly
Indiana. Supreme Court
Women--Suffrage--Indiana]]>

After the Indiana State Legislature passed a partial suffrage bill in February 1917, the State Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional in October 1917.]]>
Antislavery movements
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Newspapers
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873, Editor
New York (N.Y.) -- Newspapers
Slavery--United States--Periodicals]]>

In December 1841 the Free American, the official paper of the Massachusetts Abolition Society, merged with the Emancipator and the editors renamed it the Emancipator and Free American.

The Emancipator ran for 18 years and became one of the most widely circulated antislavery newspapers in the country.]]>
Antislavery movements
Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Slavery--United States--Controversial literature]]>

"Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" by A.E. Grimke. In this essay, Angelina Grimke urges Southern women to use their influence on the men in their lives to fight against slavery.]]>
American Anti-Slavery Society
Antislavery movements
Antislavery movements --United States --Newspapers
New York (N.Y.) --Newspapers
Philadelphia (Pa.) --Newspapers
Slavery--United States--Periodicals]]>

The Lewis collection includes the following issues:
Volume 3, No. 32, January 12, 1843
Volume 3, No. 34, January 26, 1843
Volume 3, No. 35, February 2, 1843
Volume 3, No. 36, February 9, 1843
Volume 3, No. 37, February 16, 1843
Volume 3, No. 38, February 23, 1843
Volume 3, No. 39, March 2, 1843
Volume 3, No. 40, March 9, 1843
Volume 3, No. 42, March 23, 1843
Volume 3, No. 48, May 4, 1843]]>
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.]]> Child, David Lee, 1794-1874, Assistant Editor.]]>