Circular : What difference does it make to the woman. / by Ellis Meredith. [Circa 1913-1915]
Child labor
Custody of children
Education
Inheritance and succession
Labor laws and legislation
Literacy
Meredith, Ellis, 1865-
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Portion of an article written by journalist and writer, Ellis Meredith, entitled "The Struggle for Equal Rights" originally published in "Pictorial Review." Meredith enumerates the ways in which the lack of suffrage impacts women, including marriage and custody laws, inheritance laws, child labor laws, child literacy, and education.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a series of circulars written by well-known activists on the social, political, and economic reasons why women should be granted the right to vote. The circulars, along with novelties such as buttons, stationery, playing cards and other materials to advertise the suffrage movement were included in a mail-order "Catalog of Suffrage Literature and Supplies" produced by the NAWSA Literature Committee.
Meredith, Ellis, 1865-
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National American Woman Suffrage Association
[Circa 1913-1915]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1000.108
Leaflet : The Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore. Proposed amendment to the Baltimore City Charter. [Circa 1909-1910]
Citizenship
Constitutional amendments
Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
Literacy
Maryland. Constitution (1910)
Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates
United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Women--Suffrage--Maryland
Language proposed by the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore to give the right to vote to every Baltimore resident, male or female, over the age of 21, provided that they:
"possess any one of the following qualifications, to wit: (a) If such person is qualified to vote for members of the House of Delegates; or (b) if he or she can read of write, from dictation, any paragraph or sentence of more than five lines contained in the Constitution of Maryland; or (c) if he or she is assessed with property in said city to the amount of $300 and has paid taxes thereon for at least two years preceding the election at which he or she offers to vote."
The bill was defeated. The Maryland legislature did not amend the state constitution to allow women to vote until after the 19th amendment was passed in 1920. Maryland finally ratified the amendment on May 29, 1941.
Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD : Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
[Circa 1909-1910]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.92