What the Employers of America Can Do for the Disabled Soldiers & Sailors
Issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.; Series: Monograph ; no. 3.; Vocational Rehabilitation Series ; no. 3 "The great American Congress felt the pulse of the Nation. It has charged the Federal Board for Vocational Education with the specific task of reeducating, retraining all disabled soldiers and sailors to take their place in the world as independent, self-supporting citizens. YOU, the employers of America, are charged with the duty of cooperation." Federal Board for Vocational Education Members: David F. Houston, Chairman, Secretary of Agriculture James P. Munroe, Vice Chairman, Manufacture and Commerce William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce Charles A. Greathouse, Agriculture William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor Arthur E. Holder, Labor P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education Executive Staff: Layton S. Hawkins, Chief Vocational Education Division Charles H. Winslow, Chief Research Division J. A. C. Chandler, Chief Rehabilitation Division Lewis H. Capris, Assistant Director for Industrial Education F. G. Nichols, Assistant Director for Commercial Education Josephine T. Berry, Assistant Director for Home Economics Education W. H. Hummel, Assistant Director for Agricultural Education Compare the cover illustration to this poster titled, "Keep'em Smiling!"
United States. Federal Board for Vocational Education.
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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This Citizenship Institute flyer was published by the Department of Citizenship Education, Bureau of Extension, University of Virginia. The Citizenship Institute was run by Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon, Director of the Department of Citizenship Education.
University of Virginia. Bureau of Extension. Department of Citizenship Education.
M 9 Box 98, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Department of Citizenship Education, Bureau of Extension, University of Virginia
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Richmond Community Fund membership button
Pinback button In 1924, the Richmond Area Community Council created the Community Fund, later known as the Richmond Area Community Chest. This trust centralized fundraising and fund distribution to the Council’s more than thirty member organizations.
The Valentine (Gift of Eloise Robinson Blackwell)
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Pinback button In 1885, Methodist minister William Booth established the Christian Mission Center in East London for the city’s poor and homeless. Booth changed the name to The Salvation Army in 1878, using military terms to organize the evangelical Christian movement. By the early 20th century, the Army had an international presence, with its various “corps” providing food depots, day nurseries and missionary hospitals. The Richmond Corps No. 1 opened on S. Linden Street in 1885. Richmond would eventually have three corps that operated youth clubs, a men’s home and the Evangeline Booth Home and Hospital for unwed mothers. The Friends League of the Salvation Army was a membership drive which, in 1919, cost $1, $2 or $5 a year. The funds raised from membership subscriptions financed the activities of the Army. Today, The Salvation Army Central Virginia Area Command manages more than forty programs in the region, including emergency and substance abuse shelters, disaster assistance, family services, Christmas assistance, a boys and girls club, and worship centers.
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Annie Holland, Age 17, Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA
Photograph on postcard of a young African American woman named Annie Holland, standing in front of the Seventeenth Street Mission in Richmond, VA. Se wears a long dress with a jacket. Her hands are clasped behind her back. Notes on the front of the card give her age as 17 and note her many accomplishments in a single year of study. They read: "17th St. Mission Richmond, Va. Annie Holland Age - 17. Has recited twice, perfectly, wk. apart. C[hild's] Cat[echism] 145 q[uestions] Sh[orter] Cat[echism] 25 q[uestions] Lords Prayer Beatitudes A[postles] Creed 10 Com[mandments] Is 53 I Cor 13 Eccl 12 Matt 5.6.7 Ps 1, 15, 19, 23 91, 100, 121 ---------------- All within 12 months"
Seventeenth Street Mission Collection, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
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Use of Mexican Workers Does Not Depress Farm Wages
This article compares the hourly wages of farm workers state-by-state, along with the number of Mexican workers employed in 1962. The document's author states, "The current average hourly farm wage of the 21 States in which Mexican workers were used in 1962 is $1.13 per hour. The average of the 27 States in which no Mexican nationals were used in 1962 is $1.04 per hour...." "One conclusion, however is obvious; that factors other than employment of Mexican nationals dominate in the establishment of farm wage rates and if there is any correlation whatever between the employment of Mexican nationals, or the number employed, and the level of farm wages in the various States, it is that farm wages tend to be higher in States where substantial numbers of Mexican workers are employed."
Box 241, f. 13, W. R. Poage Papers, The W. R. Poage Legislative Library Political Collections, Baylor University Libraries
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Learn more: Hazelton, A. J. (2017). Farmworker Advocacy through Guestworker Policy: Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell and the Bracero Program. Journal of Policy History 29 (July), p. 431-461. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898030617000185 Cosgrove, B. (2013) Bitter Harvest: LIFE With America's Migrant Workers, 1959. LIFE magazine Mar 10, 2013. (Previously unpublished photographs by Michael Rougier). Migrant Children and Youth, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Classroom Desegregation Will Never Work [broadside]
This broadside asserts “there is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races,” citing IQ tests and a booklet by Henry E. Garrett, How Classroom Desegregation Will Work (1966). Henry Garrett was at the forefront of a resurgence of racial pseudoscience in the mid-twentieth century. He argued for segregation in Davis v. County School Board (one of the cases in Brown v. Board), compiled a pamphlet of his essays for the white supremacist Citizens’ Council, and his views were used to forward the work of other eugenicists. Excerpts: That is why Classroom Desegregation will never work: There is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races. If you mix the classrooms and gear the standards to Negroes, you deny White children their optimum chance. If you gear the standards to White mentality, you develop frustrations on the part of Negroes, with subsequent antagonisms, drop-outs, and "delinquencies...." Race differences, as an issue, is the overriding problem of our time. These differences are something too few of us know about. Now is the time to learn, before it is too late. If you know what you are talking about, you can help defeat Black Power. Only the truth will keep us free.
General collection, Call Number LC214.2 .C614 196-?, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
The Patrick Henry Press, Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: Door, Gregory Michael (2008). Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia Shuey, Audrey M. (1966). The Testing of Negro Intelligence, second edition. Campbell, A. W. (2018). Influence and Controversy. The Races of Mankind and The Brotherhood of Man. Social Welfare History Project.
Exchange for Woman's Work - Interior, Richmond, Va.
Photograph of the interior of the Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work, 203 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Va. The Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work, founded in 1883, part of the Woman’s Exchange movement that began in Philadelphia in 1832. The Association was begun by women "to aid ladies whose pecuniary circumstances require them to make their own handiwork a means of their support, and also to afford an opportunity by which work may be sold for charitable purposes." The Richmond Exchange operated until 1955.
MSC0037-Photo, The Valentine.
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Notice! The Coloured People of the City of Richmond… [broadside]
This 1866 broadside, issued by members of the African American community in Richmond, intended to clarify their plans to celebrate not the fall of the Confederacy, but rather the first anniversary of emancipation. When Richmond fell into the hands of Union troops, on 3 April 1865, enslaved individuals there effectively were emancipated. The text noted that the black community would commemorate “the day on which GOD was pleased to liberate their long-oppressed race”—emphasizing that their freedom came about as a result of God’s will. In the immediate aftermath of the war, racialized confrontations in Richmond’s streets frequently led to violence, and near-riots. The African American community, while determined to carry out their celebration, clearly intended to preempt potentially violent repercussions. Text: "NOTICE! The coloured people of the City of Richmond would most respectfully inform the public, that THEY DO NOT INTEND to celebrate THE FAILURE OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, as it has been stated in the papers of this City, but simply as the day on which GOD was pleased to Liberate their long-oppressed race. C. Harris, J. Cocks, J. Edmunds, F. J. Smith, N. Williams, Committee. Richmond, Va., April 2, 1866"
Unknown, although presumed authors are the “Committee” listed on the broadside: C. Harris, J. Cocks, J. Edmunds, F. J. Smith, N. Williams.
Broadside Collection, Call Number 1866:13, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: The Evacuation of Richmond. (1933). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 41(3), 215-222. Richmond during the Civil War, Encyclopedia Virginia Ruane, M.E. (2015). War's End. The Washington Post. Linking to Our Past, Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
Jefferson Ward: List of Qualified Voters, Election Tuesday, November 7, 1933
This 1933 booklet provides “a list of persons in Jefferson Ward in the City of Richmond, who have paid their State Poll Taxes.” Poll taxes were enacted by many southern states after Reconstruction to suppress African American voting. Such taxes were a precondition for voting and thus disenfranchised those who could not pay the fee. Use of the poll tax in federal elections was abolished with the passage of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964, and in state-level elections by the 1966 Supreme Court decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections. The booklet is divided into “WHITE” voters, listed in the first 274 pages, and “COLORED” voters, listed on pages 275 to 304.
Unknown, but presumably “H. L. Hulce, Treasurer of the City of Richmond, Virginia,” who swore “that the foregoing is a true list,” as described on page 305.
General collection, Call Number F233.69 .J3, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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The Sacrifice (Tuberculosis is Preventable) [editorial cartoon by A. J. Van Leshout]
Editorial cartoon by A. J. Van Leshout "The Sacrifice." Originally published in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Republished here in Cartoons Magazine, vol. 5, no. 2 (February 1914), p.126. Image Description: Under the full moon, a large group of people are shown marching into the mouth of a death's head. They carry a banner "Ignorance of the Disease." On man sits apart from the group beside a sign that says "Tuberculosis IS Preventable." A woman in the crowd looks over at him wondering.
Cartoons Magazine, vol. 5, no. 2 (February 1914), p.126. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Anti-Suffage Arguments [anti-suffrage handbill]
Handbill from the Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage articulating arguments against giving women the right to vote. The Association give several reasons why suffrage will not help working women. The VAOWS was a group of women opposed to suffrage who organized in Richmond in 1912. They were affiliated with the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Excerpts: "Votes cannot make work when there is no work. Votes cannot increase wages when there is no natural increase in business. The best safeguards for the working women are found in those States where the laws have been made by men voters.... The badge of the Consumer's League has done more for the relief of the working women, than any vote could ever do. A woman's citizenship is as great and as real as that of any man. The Anti-Suffragists stand for the true view of woman's place in the State."
Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
M 9 Box 51, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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MEN. You are making "The World Safe for Democracy." [anti-suffrage handbill]
Echoing Woodrow Wilson's request for a Declaration of War in 1917, this handbill argued that women should be free from political duties just as they were free from the duty of fighting in war. The Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in Richmond, Va. in 1912. This group of women was associated with the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Excerpts: "MEN. You are making 'The World Safe for Democracy.' And also safe for women. That your Mothers, Sisters and Wives may never have to suffer as the women of Belgium and France have suffered. ALL WOMEN THANK YOU Men manage most of our business. Our Government is a very big business. Most women want men to manage our Government. Only a few women want suffrage. Shall these few women force all women into politics? Women can do their bit best outside of Politics. Our hands are full already with work which only women can do. Women are free from the duty of fighting. Protect us in our right to be free from political duties."
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Anti-Suffrage Arguments. DANGER! [anti-suffrage broadside]
A single-sided handbill published by the Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage. The handbill argues that woman suffrage will lead to socialism and the destruction of the Christian family and the holding of private property. See also "The Red Behind the Yellow." Text: Anti-Suffrage Arguments DANGER ! WOMAN's SUFFRAGE THE VANGUARD OF SOCIALISM Proof. --See here-- 1. What is Socialism? Socialism is against Christian marriage. Socialism is against the Christian family. Socialism is against the holding of private property. Socialism is against Christianity. Socialism is against the Bible. 2. If you hold your marriage, your family life, your home, your religion, as sacred, dear and inviolate, to be preserved for yourself, and for your children, for all time, then work with all your might against Socialism's vanguard--Woman's Suffrage. 3. In a parade in New York City last November they openly marched together. The Woman Suffragists as the vanguard, with their yellow flags. The Socialists behind with their red flags. 4. The Socialist red flag had this inscription: "Every Socialist is a Woman Suffragist." Does every Virginia WOman Suffragist intend to be a Socialist? 5. We hope not. But "There is a way which seemeth righ unto a man, but the end thereof is death." Danger lies ahead of you. Do you recognize the kindship? Is not this Plain enough for you? Literature can be obtained free of cost at Meyers Book Store, First and Broad Streets Bell Book and Stationery Co, 914 E. Main Street Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage.
Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage
M 9 Box 233, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
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Virginia School for the Blind, Charlottesville, Virginia
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"The intent and purpose of this leaflet is to acquaint its readers with the immediate importance of the Virginia General Assembly making an appropriation sufficient to build and operate the Virginia School for the Blind at Charlottesville." (p.1) The proposal is signed by L.L. Watts, Executive Secretary, Virginia Commission for the Blind. A full-page illustration of the proposed school is included in the pamphlet.
M 12 Box 2, Lucian Louis Watts papers 1921-1960, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Officers, Executive Committee, and Members
List of members and the organizations they represented in the Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Dr. R.E. Blackwell was the Virginia Chairman of this group. The parent organization, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), was based in Atlanta, Ga. Founded in 1919 by progressive Southern whites, the CIC sought to improve race relations with an anti-lynching campaign, and by educating the public about issues affecting blacks such as peonage, police brutality, and disparities in educational and health services. The group published a newsletter, The Southern Frontier.
Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation
M 9 Box 81, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Pamphlet describing the work of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood. Cover art by Corporal Percy Lee. [Image description: The image on the pamphlet above the text is a drawing of a mother on her deathbed sourounded by her four children.] Transcription: "This Mother is Dying Because She Wasn't Well Enough to Have Her Last Baby Perhaps she was already exhausted from too frequent or complicated pregnancies. Perhaps she had developed tuberculosis, anemia, heart or kidney diseses which made it dangerous for her to have more children, yet, as in so many cases, no advice was given. Though all she asked was to be able to care for her living children and hold her home together, her life is forfeited. Planned Parenthood measures, under medical direction, can reduce our high maternal and infant death rates, ensure better health for the mother and child, and bring better living conditions for the family. Planned Parenthood can also reduce the number of transmissable and hereditary diseases in the next generation. We Need Your Contribution to Help End the Waste in Human and Material Resources Resulting from Unplanned Parenthood. The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc., Richmond, Virginia"
Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc.
M 333, Box 1, Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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What Rockwell Will Do As Governor [Rockwell for Governor Campaign leaflet]
Two-sided campaign leaflet for George Lincoln Rockwell's 1965 gubernatorial campaign. One side appears to originate from Rockwell's organization, the American Nazi Party, and includes an advertisement for Hatenanny Records. The reverse contains a statement of belief from the Virginia Office of the United Klans of America, Chesapeake, Va. Rockwell's campaign platform promotes white schools, stopping federal bribery and extortion, law and order in Virginia, taxes and welfare, anti-subversive commission, and relocation benefits. His campaign values are supported by those of the Ku Klux Klan, which are enumerated in the pamplet, as well. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by former Confederate soliders who sought to continue to intimidate and commit acts of violence against black Americans. Klan support and action surged in the 1920s, when they further adopted anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic agendas. Likewise, there was another revival in the 1940s-1960s in response to the Civil Rights movement, school desegreation, and the pressure to end Jim Crow laws throughout the south. To maintain and garner support, the Klan associated themselves with Christianity, even using a burning cross to represent white Protestant identity. Mills E. Godwin, Jr. won the governorship with 296,526 of the 562,789 votes cast. Rockwell received 5,730 votes, coming in fourth behind Godwin, A. Linwood Holton, Jr. and William J. Story Jr.
Virginia Office, United Klans of America, Inc.
M 342 Box 13, Edward H. Peeples, Jr. Papers, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Save Yourself From Influenza...[public health graphic]
Public health information graphic furnished by The Virginia State Board of Health. Illustrations by Carl J. Rostrup of Richmond, Va. Transcription: "SAVE YOURSELF from INFLUENZA and pneumonia, bad colds, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheriam scarlet fever, whooping cough, meningitis, mumps FOLLOW TWO SIMPLE RULES RULE 1: Whenever you cough or sneeza, bow your head or put a handkerchief over your mouth and nose. Rule 2: Don't put in your mouth fingers, pencils, or anything else that does not belong there, nor use a common drinking cup. The Germs of these Diseases are spread through the secetions of the mouth and nose of sick people and carriers. Furnished by The Virginia State Board of Health PLEASE POST: Council of National Defense, C.R. Keiley, Federal Field Secretary" [Image description: Next to the word 'SAFETY' is a drawing of a person coughing into a handkerchief and the text "use handkerchief when you cough or sneeze". Another drawing shows a person sneezng with his head bent down and his respiratory particles going towards the ground. Under this image is the text: "or bend your head toward the ground". Another series of drawings are under the word 'DANGER'. A drawing of someone biting a pencil and a drawing of someone biting their nails are on either side of text that says, "DON'T put pencils or fingers in your mouth". Two more drawings show a person drinking out of a pot and another sneezing with an open mouth spraying respratory particles outward and onto the person drinking. These are follwed with the text "DON'T use common drinking cup or cough or sneeze into the air towards others".]
Annual Report of the State Board of Health and the State Health Commissioner to the Governor of Virginia for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1919. Bound with corresponding years of the Virginia Health Bulletin, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Tuberculosis, Social Welfare History Project Nurses Settlement, Richmond, VA, Social Welfare History Project Influenza Catechism (1918), Virginia Health Bulletin, (X,10). Influenza, Social Welfare History Image Portal Public health, Social Welfare History Image Portal
The Suffragette Letter Carrier [anti-suffrage postcard]
Anti-suffrage postcard showing female letter carrier opening and reading other people's mail. She is walking a small dog while going about her rounds. Caption reads, "The Suffragette Letter Carrier. Would you trust your wife as letter carrier? Honest, would you?"
I.V.76.195.05, The Valentine
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Letter to Adele Clark from Mary L. Westbrook, Federal Council of Churches, April 23, 1928
Letter from Mary L. Westbrook (Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook), Chairman, Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Inc. (Federal Council of Churches), sent to Adele Goodman Clark in her capacity as a representative of the National League of Women Voters at the 1926 Interracial Conference of Church Women. The letter describes a second conference planned for September 1928, and requests Clark begin planning to send delegates from the NLWV. Excerpts: "The past year and a half has disclosed problems which cause us to believe that there is need for the leaders of church women's organizations throughout the Nation to meet in conference again to discuss these problems, and to devise further plans and means of carrying forward the effective work begun so auspiciously following the epoch-making Interracial Conference of Church Women at Eagles Mere, Pa., Spetember 21-22, 1926, held by this Commission in cooperatin with the Council of Women for Home Missions and the National Board of the YWCA. This conference requested the Commission to form a Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, and this Committee, including representatives of practically every religious organization affiliated with the Federal Council of Churches, has been actively promoting parts of the program adopted at the Eagles Mere Conference. Correspondence with church women's groups in all parts of the Country has disclosed an unusual activity in race relations among them with a growing consciousness about the need of religion applied to the race problem. In many sections local committees were already in existence or have been formed; regional conferences in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas have been held with fruitful results." See all documents related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women.
Learn more: Adams, B. L. (2016). Black women's Christian activism. Seeking social justice in a northern suburb. New York: New York University Press. Interracial Conference of Church Women, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers. Letter to Congressman W. R. Poage from Betty Jane Whitaker
This letter was written to Congressman W. R. Poage by Betty Jane Whitaker, Co-chairman of the Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers, asking him to help improve the lives of migrant workers and their children. Whitaker asks for this to be done through better schooling and healthcare. A paper titled "Migrant Children and Youth" by Florence R. Wyckoff was included with this letter.
Box 241, folder 13, W. R. Poage Papers, The W. R. Poage Legislative Library Political Collections, Baylor University Libraries.
Learn more: Cosgrove, B. (2013) Bitter Harvest: LIFE With America's Migrant Workers, 1959. LIFE magazine Mar 10, 2013. (Previously unpublished photographs by Michael Rougier). The Position of Farm Workers in Federal and State Legislation, Social Welfare History Image Portal
A State Program on Education for Citizenship
This pamphlet written by Martha E. D. White, Civic Director, Massachusetts League of Women Voters, is a program of events about citizenship and calls on women to become more actively engaged in the Education for Citizenship. As described by White, Education for Citizenship seeks " to furnish information, to awaken the sense of personal responsibility, to stimulate interest, to arouse the social conscience, and to quicken sympathy..." This educational work carried out by the State League of Women Voters falls under three categories: citizenship, politics, and legislation.
M 86 Box 1, Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Woman's Journal and Suffrage News, November 30, 1912
Editorial cartoon by Ralph Wilder published Woman's Journal and Suffrage News, Vol . 43, No. 47, November 30, 1912. A group of suffragists wearing "Votes for Women" sashes enter a room where they are greeted by women labelled "Idaho," "Washington," "Utah," "Wyoming," "Colorado," and "California" (states where women could already vote). The suffragists joining the party are "Oregon," "Michigan," "Kansas," and "Arizona." Caption: "Meanwhile The Ladies Have Been Having a Perfectly Lovely Time" Publication note: "Courtesy Chicago Record-Herald"
M 9 Box 56, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Woman Suffrage, Social Welfare History Image Portal Wielding the Pen: Editorial Cartooning for Social Reform, Social Welfare History Image Portal Winslow, C. S. (1947). Early Chicago: As Seen by a Cartoonist. Illus. by Ralph Wilder. Chicago: Charles S. Winslow pub.