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Jessie Ackerman, 'The Original World Citizen': Temperance Leader, Suffrage Pioneer, Feminist, Humanitarian., Jenny Rushing

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Jessie Ackerman was the second world missionary for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Her fascinating life sheds light on the most important issues facing women during this time period. Most WCTU women have been dismissed by twentieth century scholars as being religiously fanatical and conservative. They have been overshadowed by suffragists and other women that we consider more radical by today’s standards. Only in recent years have some feminist historians begun to reexamine the contributions WCTU women made to the suffrage movement and to feminism.

The research for this thesis relies heavily on primary sources including Ackerman’s personal papers found …

Tucker, Mildred Carpenter, 1894-1994 (Mss 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 145. Materials removed from a scrapbook kept by Tucker, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, while a student at Hamilton College in Lexington, Kentucky, for the 1915-1916 school year. Includes notes about the college, printed items, photos, mementos, etc. Also includes related data.

Bigger Than A Ballot Box, Joanne Goodwin

History Faculty Research

The relationship between the histories of woman suffrage and U.S. politics suffered from a reluctance on the part of both fields to include the other until recently. Political historians refrained from in-depth discussions of the eighty-year movement to gain the vote for women until the new political history expanded the definition of political actors and activities. Women's historians (with a few notable exceptions) discussed the suffrage movement as a type of voluntarist reform activity, rather than contextualizing it within political institutions and systems. Ellen Carol DuBois's study of suffrage through the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments departed significantly …

Lavinia Dock: Adams County Suffragette, Mary Lou Schwartz

Adams County History

In the aftermath of the anniversary celebrations held to commemorate women's right to vote, it is fitting to remember an Adams county resident who figured prominently in the most militant phase of the suffrage campaign-Lavinia Lloyd Dock.

Lavinia Dock was born February 26, 1858, the second child of Gilliard and Lavinia Lloyd Bombaugh Dock. Gilliard, who had attended Gettysburg College, was a well-to-do engineer and machinist. Both parents were liberal in their views. Lavinia said that "Father had some whimsical masculine prejudices, but Mother was broad on all subjects and very tolerant and charitable towards persons." Although the family, eventually …

South Africa: The Elections And The Path Ahead, Prexy Nesbitt

Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt Writings and Speeches

As the Senior Program Officer for the John D. and catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist and educator, wrote this piece covering the 1994 general election in South Africa, the first of which was held with universal adult suffrage.

Labor News Clippings, 22 Scrapbooks, 1867-1902, Scott Molloy

Special Collections (Miscellaneous)

Clippings from the Providence Journal, Providence Evening Bulletin, Providence Morning Herald, Manufacturers and Farmers' Journal, and Providence Morning Star, 1867-1902. Compiled by Scott Molloy, with the cooperation of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1993. Clippings are grouped by year but do not appear in exact chronological order.

0534: Huntington League Of Women Voters, 1950-1991, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Scrapbook and files of various community projects undertaken by this civic group.

Development Of The Maine Constitution: The Long Tradition, 1819-1988, Kenneth T. Palmer, Marcus Librizzi

Maine History

This article discusses the history of the Maine Constitution, Maine being one of only nineteen states that have retained their original charter. The 158 amendments to the constitution are reviewed.

Interview With Charlie Earl Coy (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Charlie Earl Coy conducted by Keith Smith for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Coy discusses his life and times, including information about farms and farming, rural life, Prohibition, farm equipment, automobiles, rural electrification and other matters in Stanley, a small community in Daviess County, Kentucky.

A New Force In Politics: The Suffragists' Experience In Connecticut, Carole Artigiani Nichols

Women's History Theses

A great deal has been written on the women's rights movement of the early twentieth century from the perspective of its national leadership and the national suffrage organizations. Less research has focused on suffrage activities on the state level. The purpose of this essay is to examine the efforts of women in Connecticut to extend their political power; to analyze their ideas, goals, and tactics; to make some observations about feminist leadership; and to investigate the activities of politically-minded women in the years immediately following their enfranchisement.

As a result of this study, we may question the characterization of suffrage …

Ua68/8/3 The Student Researcher, Vol. Iii, No. I, Phi Alpha Theta

Student Organizations

Publication of the Eta-Pi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. This issue includes:

• Bussell, Judy. The Women's Suffrage Movement: 1870-1900
• Davenport, Beverly. RFK and Civil Rights "1961: It Had Only Just Begun"
• Kellems, Brady. The Election Dispute of 1876
• Lega, Mark. A.J.P. Taylor: Gadfly Historian
• Tatum, Raymond. The Hartford Convention: Those "Wise Men of the East"

The Quest For Woman Suffrage In Arkansas, Michele Roussel

Honors Theses

The struggle for woman suffrage in Arkansas and the entire United States did not end until the twentieth century. It was a long and difficult process but in 1917 with the passage of the Arkansas Primary Suffrage Bill, Arkansas women were allowed to vote in primaries. Then, in 1920 they were given full suffrage rights through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In order for these events to occur, women's traditional role had to change in Arkansas and the nation, and it had to be accepted by both men and women. The traditional view of women given by Anne Scott …

The Status Of Woman Suffrage In Virginia 1909-1920, Betty C. Pitts

Honors Theses

The woman suffrage movement in Virginia, as in other parts of the nation, must be viewed within the total context of reform which pervaded in the first two decades of the twentieth century in America. The evils associated with the industrial revolution, mass immigration, and the urban crisis produced in the minds of men and women a favorable climate for sweeping sociological changes. Despite the receptive attitudes of individual men and women, the woman suffrage movement could never have been successful without "a heroic mustering of effort....," which has never since been achieved by this same group expect during a …

Negroes' Freedom Of Contract In Antebellum Virginia, 1620 - 1860, Edward H. Bonekemper Iii

History Theses & Dissertations

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The Political Thought Of A Southern Negro Editor, 1921-1940: P. B. Young Of The Norfolk Journal And Guide, Laurel K. Gutterman

History Theses & Dissertations

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English Franchise Reform In The Seventeenth Century, Richard Bushman

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The roots of franchise reform in the seventeenth century are of interest to historians both of Britain and of America. In the new world and in England important steps toward democratic suffrage were taken in the first half of the century. The Virginia charter of 1619 granted voting privileges to all adult male inhabitants regardless of property. Later governments qualified this liberality, but an important precedent was established. In England Leveller tracts and the classic Putney Debates aired arguments that bore no immediate practical fruits but that foreshadowed later reforms. 130th developments are startling enough to raise urgent questions about …

Woman Suffrage In Utah As An Issue In The Mormon And Non-Mormon Press Of The Territory 1870-1887, Ralph Lorenzo Jack

Theses and Dissertations

Early Utah history was characterized in part by a period of journalistic controversy and abuse that clearly reflected the differences between the Latter-day Saint and Gentile populations of the Territory. This thesis is a study of the differences between the Mormon and Gentile presses concerning the subject of woman suffrage.

Federated Club Women To Hear About A Man's World

Ruth Herr Papers (MS-91)

A clipping of an article from the Dayton Journal about detailing the efforts of women's organizations in Dayton fighting for the women's rights on a variety of fronts.

Dayton Journal Clippings On Women's Issues

Ruth Herr Papers (MS-91)

A group of clippings of the following stories about women's rights from the Dayton Journal: Status of Women in Different Countries Discussed by Group, National Women's Party Considers the Status of Sex, and National Women's Party Members Hear About Status of Sex in Mexico.

The National Woman's Party Letter

Ruth Herr Papers (MS-91)

A draft of a letter describing the efforts of The National Woman's Party and detailing a variety of issues that the party does and does not support for equality for women beyond suffrage.

The Ohio Woman Voter

Ruth Herr Papers (MS-91)

A copy of The Ohio Woman Voter newsletter that was published monthly. This issue includes the Program for a meeting of the Ohio League of Women Voters meeting, articles, a list of publications and more.

Constitution And By-Laws Of The National Woman's Party

Ruth Herr Papers (MS-91)

A draft of the Constitution and By-Laws of the National Woman's Party from the Third Congressional District in Dayton Ohio. This constitution and by-laws were created by the National Woman's Party Constitution Committee.

Some Phases Of The History Of The Woman's Movement In Tennessee, Elizabeth Stone Hoyt

Masters Theses

The discussion of the woman's movement in this thesis will not refer exclusively to feminine operations for equal suffrage, but will include, also, the intellectual, the political, the humanitarian, and the economic development of women. One cannot say dogmatically that on such a day in such a month of such a year woman started to free herself from her inferior position. The woman's movement, like other great movements, has been in the process of evolution during a long period of time. In practice, woman's position has varied from age to age; but, in theory, woman has not been considered an …

Radio Speech, Katharine Kennedy Brown

Katharine Kennedy Brown Speeches

A speech written for dissemination via radio by Katharine Kennedy Brown in favor of the Hoover administration. In this speech, Brown details the achievements of the President Hoover as well advocates for Ohio to vote for other Republican candidates in Congress to support the President in Washington.

Speech For Herbert Hoover In Miamisburg, Ohio, Katharine Kennedy Brown

Katharine Kennedy Brown Speeches

A draft of a speech written by Katharine Kennedy Brown given prior to the 1928 presidential election of Herbert J. Hoover. In this speech Brown details what she considers the necessary qualifications of an ideal presidential candidate, and then proceeds to highlight these qualifications as they are exemplified by Herbert Hoover.

Letter, Mrs. Ohmer C. Burnside To Mrs. S.S. Wassell, Mrs. Ohmer C. Burnside

Women's history in Arkansas

This is a letter from Mrs. Ohmer C. Burnside in Lake Village, Arkansas, to Bettie Wassell in Little Rock, Arkansas. The letter talks about whether or not two Arkansas politicians in Ashley County have supported women's suffrage.

Women's Suffrage Delegation On The Steps Of The State Capitol With Governor Charles Brough

Women's history in Arkansas

Black and white photographic print of the Arkansas Women's Suffrage Delegation standing on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol with Governor Charles Brough.

The Case Against Woman Suffrage: The Most Important Question On The Ballot At The Special Election, September 10, 1917, Maine Association Opposed To Suffrage For Women

Maine History Documents

A scanned version of a pamphlet printed in 1917 to make the case against women having the right to vote. Distributed by the Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women; Mrs. Clarence Hale, Portland, President; Mrs. Fred E. Hollis, Portland, Secretary.

Headquarters News Bulletin: Vol.1, No. 12, Ohio Woman Suffrage Association

Martha McClellan Brown Ephemera

The newsletter of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association covers events and people of interest to the suffrage movement in Ohio and nationally.

Letter, 1915, November 4, Mrs. Harvey C. Garber And Edna A. Stone To Dear Suffragist [Martha Mcclellan Brown], D. H. Garber, Edna A. Stone

Martha McClellan Brown Correspondence

A letter from the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage discussing the potential passage of the Shafroth-Palmer amendment or the Susan B. Anthony amendment and asking for support for both. The letter was written by Mrs. Harvey C. Garber (D.H. Curtis Garber) and Edna A. Stone.