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The Temperance Movement And Women’S Suffrage, William Kennedy Brown
The Temperance Movement And Women’S Suffrage, William Kennedy Brown
William Kennedy Brown Papers
William Kennedy Brown describes Martha McClellan Brown’s initial attempts to organize the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the subsequent founding and growth of that organization. He argues that the history of women’s suffrage is defined more by the Christian women of the temperance movement and their demand for the vote than by the work of religious skeptics such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Ex-President Cleveland Profited By Woman’S Work, William Kennedy Brown
Ex-President Cleveland Profited By Woman’S Work, William Kennedy Brown
William Kennedy Brown Papers
William Kennedy Brown argues that former president Grover Cleveland should respect the work of women in political reform movements because he benefited from that work in the 1884 presidential election. In that election, Cleveland won New York, in part because the temperance candidate split off a small part of the Republican vote, elevating him to the Presidency. Martha McClellan Brown was deeply involved in the New York temperance movement in the years leading up to 1884. The essay was written ca. 1884.