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Suffrage

In Honor of Women's History Month: The Things We Carried

March 14, 2013
Feminism
Suffrage
Women's History
Manuscript Collections

In the course of the past 150 years, women’s efforts in behalf of social justice (including suffrage, equal rights, fair labor laws, peace, and civil rights for African Americans and gays and lesbians) have been well documented in diaries, speeches, correspondence, and meeting minutes—some passionate and intimate, others written for a public audience. But what happens to those ephemeral pieces left behind in dresser drawers or rolled up at the back of a closet, forgotten once the march was over or the election won? 

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New Collection Documents the Years Before and After Women’s Suffrage

October 13, 2011
Manuscript Collections
Suffrage

Out of the blue, in March, came a call from the great-granddaughter of Edna Lamprey Stantial. Stantial was for many years archivist of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her name is familiar to those who study that era, but there is no significant collection of her papers anywhere. That made the answer to the question of whether Schlesinger Library would be interested in Stantial's papers easy—yes!

From One Suffragist to Another

August 9, 2011
Book Postings
Suffrage

The fight for woman suffrage was long and hard-fought by several generations of women. In 1902, Susan B. Anthony inscribed the following to fellow suffragist, Caroline H. Dall in the just completed volume four of The History of Woman Suffrage: