Suffrage

Despite Oberlin's progressive tradition, not all reforms received the full support of the community. In particular, the women's suffrage question generated heated debate. In March of 1870, one hundred and forty married women of Lorain County petitioned the state legislature, protesting…

This map records the level of voting rights achieved by women in different states before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

 

“The Woman Who Dared” cover illustration by Thomas Wust (of Susan B. Anthony) for The Daily Graphic, June 5, 1873 

 

Susan B. Anthony and other suffragists cast votes in the 1872 presidential election as a strategy to confront what had become male-only electoral privileges across most elections in the United States. They attempted to invoke the citizenship clause (“privileges or immunities”) and the equal…

<p><span class="deck">Her past was shady but her conscience was excellent, and all in all she played a big part in the emancipation of women</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In two dead-game spinsters who wouldn’t be unfairly taxed, the men of Glastonbury met their match and the cause of feminism found a bovine</span> cause célèbre </p>

<p>An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For this crime, she was arrested, held, indicted, and put on trial. Judge Hunt presided.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Elizabeth Lady Stanton's sardonic and biting proto-feminist commentary on the <em>Bible</em> cost her the leadership of the suffragist movement.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1917, fed up with the inaction of conservative suffragists, Alice Paul decided on the unorthodox strategy of pressuring the president directly.</span></p>

<p>The ex-slave and investigative journalist spent a lifetime fighting against lynching and segregation — but also for voting rights for African-American women. </p>

<p>The long, embattled history of women’s suffrage that began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention continues to this day.</p>

<p>The grand parade of suffragettes in 1913 was a turning point in women's struggle for the right to vote, despite the abuse by thousands of men who blocked their route.</p>