Mary Walker was a physician and social reformer from Oswego, New York. She believed in a suffrage strategy known as the "New Departure." Proponents of this strategy argued that voting was a natural right of
citizenship, guaranteed in by the…
Series: Report / Senate ; no. 1143 and views of the minority
This is an accounting of the hearing given by the Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage in response to a petition by the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts and…
Introduced by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the document details remarks by Elizabeth D. Bacon, Connecticut; Mary E. Marehand Milligan, Delaware; Ellen Powell Thompson, District of Columbia; Mrs. Frank L.…
Arguments before the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate, in behalf of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, prohibiting the several states from disfranchising United States citizens on account…
From the series: United States. Congress. Senate, 49th Congress, 1st session, No. 122.
Petition to the 1st Session of the 49th Congress by Mrs. Angie F. Newman to present the signatures of 2,000 Mormon women who assembled in Salt Lake City, Utah…
Charlotte McKay, a Civil War nurse, addresses several reasons against granting the right to vote to women, chief among them that it would put the safety of the…
E. Dana Bancroft was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
The envelope also contains handwritten notes: "Saw Dr. Heartwell and spoke with him about the within [?] an [?] presence of Doctor Parsons Sat. Feb. 18, 1888. Senator voted…
Senator James Martine, of New Jersey presents an article from the District of Columbia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage presenting with facts on the negative impact of women voters in states where women were granted the right to vote.