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Broadside : The Negro and the new social order (Extracts from the Messenger). [1919]
The broadside, published by the Men's Anti-Ratification League of Montgomery, Alabama contains excerpts from "The Negro and the New Social Order," published in The Messenger, a magazine founded in 1917 by A. Phillip Randolph and Chandler Owen as the…
Bulletin of the National League of Women Voters
Volume 3, No. 7. January, 1930
This issue includes information on the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, international measures of interest to the League, marriage laws in the South, new publications, and domicile, inheritance, and jury service.…
Circular : A few leading questions. [Circa 1913-1915]
Questions and answers addressing marital rights,child custody rights, property rights, taxation, education, whether women would vote if granted the privilege, and why women want to vote.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a…
The National American Woman Suffrage Association published a…
Circular : What difference does it make to the woman. / by Ellis Meredith. [Circa 1913-1915]
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…
Flier : To the men and women of New York. Empire State Campaign Committee. [1915]
Statement issued by Carrie Chapman Catt to repudiate anti-suffrage rhetoric that woman suffrage leaders are "advocates of free love, the abolition of marriage, [and] the elimination of the home."
The Empire State Campaign Committee was a coalition…
The Empire State Campaign Committee was a coalition…
Leaflet : "The New Woman" and the problems of the day. [Circa 1896-1897]
Reprint of an article published in "Appleton's Popular Science Monthly" by the Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York, in response to a recent essay entitled "The New Woman", written by Ouida.
Leaflet : To the Hon. Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. [Circa 1895-1896]
Letter written by Caroline Corbin, founder of the Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women to Senator Henry W. Blair in response to his report to the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, delivered to the Senate on December 8,…
Leaflet : Woman has many advantages : what she would lose should her demand for equal rights be granted : to the editor of the New York times. March 28, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Letter to the editor of the New York Times by author identified only as "A.P.P." The author argues that if women are granted equal rights, they may lose many of the rights they have already gained, including property, guardianship of children,…
Leaflet : Women's place and work. [Circa 1896-1900]
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.
The author makes reference to England and Prime Minister William Gladstone.
Pamphlet : Dignity of Womanhood. Bulletin No. 11. [March 1912]
This anti-suffrage leaflet makes the argument that women should serve as the moral and spiritual inspiration to men by working to be the best possible mothers to their sons, thus making men well-informed and effective voters.