Born into wealth and privilege in New York City in 1819, Julia Ward was a self-educated woman whose modern (considered by some to be radical) ideas clashed with those of her puritanical Calvinist father, Samuel Ward. Although restrained by her father, her status as a wealthy heiress gave her access to Read more
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Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, talked about the status of her personal tax revolt tonight, and gave out a copy of the letter she recently sent to suffrage advocates around the country asking them to join her in refusing "taxation without representation." Read more
Another sign today that at long last, victory in the generations-long struggle for woman suffrage is in sight. Carrie Chapman Catt has issued a call for the final annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which will be held at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, February 12th to 18th. Read more
A noble, but ultimately unsuccessful effort today to get the New York County Medical Society to call for changing the State's present anti-birth-control law, which, except under very specific circumstances, makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for anyone to give out information on contraception, or birth Read more
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was among the best known and most independent advocates for women’s rights of the 19th century. According to historian Elisabeth Griffith, “She set its agenda, drafted its documents, and articulated its ideology. Her followers grew from a network of local reform groups to a national Read more
A colorful and moving tribute to Inez Milholland Boissevain today at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. It was totally fitting that her memorial would be in such a place, having given her life for the cause of political equality for women.Read more
A "Revolutionary" form of protest today by Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She told the tax collector that she would neither list nor voluntarily pay taxes on her property and advised all other voteless women to do the same.Read more
The long battle to get Congress to approve the Susan B. Anthony (woman suffrage) Amendment is nearly over, according to Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She returned to New York today following the recent N.A.W.S.A. convention, and told those who greeted her that Read more
Though New York State's suffrage referendum went down to defeat on November second, Harriot Stanton Blatch said today that she and a number of other suffragists are still determined to cast their votes in next November's Presidential election, and have figured out a way to legally do it. How? Well, since a ballot Read more
A spectacular procession, followed by a stunning protest in favor of woman suffrage, took place this afternoon at the Lafayette Monument in Washington, D.C. The reason for the demonstration - held on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 - was to call attention to the fact that President Wilson arrived Read more