War Messages to The American People: Why Men Need Equal Suffrage for Women
"War Messages to The American People: Why Men Need Equal Suffrage for Women" is a booklet written by A. Caswell Ellis and details four key points regarding why American men need equal suffrage for women. According to Ellis, "<em>First</em>, the men of this nation must grant equal suffrage to women fully, freely and cheerfully <em>at once, </em>in order to square their nation's acts with its declarations...<em>Second</em>, we need woman's suffrage to protect us and our government from our own one-sided masculine view of life...<em>Third</em>, men need to grant to women the privileges and duties of citizenship in order to strengthen the weakening family bond and enrich and eleveate the home life for themselves and their children...<em>Fourth</em>, and most far reaching of all, man must grant equal suffrage to woman in order to refine his own sense of justice which is inevitably dulled by the continued toleration of any acts of injustice."
Ellis, A. Caswell
M 9 Box 48, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc.
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War Aims: War Messages to The American People
"War Aims: War Messages to The American People" was written by Carrie Chapman Catt and provides a critical analysis of the United States' failure to give women the right to vote while other countries have far surpassed America in this regard. <br /><br />"Give to the world the final pledge of sincerity in American war aims. Give women of this land the honor other nations have bestowed upon theirs. Make democracy triumphant at home that the Republic may war upon its treacherous enemy autocracy without a spot on the national escutcheon. Do it now. <strong>Support the Federal Suffrage Amendment!</strong>"<br /><br />This booklet concludes with a poem by Robert Burns, written November 1792:<br /><br />"While Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things<br />The fate of empires and the fall of kings;<br />While quacks of state much each produce his plan,<br />And Even children lisp the Rights of man;<br />Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,<br />The Rights of Women merit some attention."
Catt, Carrie Chapman
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National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co.
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Wanted: A Teen-Age Code [public service comic]
<span><span>Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. <br /><br /></span></span>Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S." <br /><br />Comic description: After a disasterous experience crashing Sally Perkins' party, Dave apologizes and proposes creating a teen code of behavior to avoid future unhappiness. <br /><br />Second [Image Description: Superboy comic book cover. Superboy projects heat rays from his eyes to toast marshmallows in the living room fireplace. The family sits nearby.]
Script: Jack Schiff
Pencils: Ruben Moreira
Inks: Ruben Moreira
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DC Comics
1958 January
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Wake Up! Richmond, Va. Crusade for Voters [handbill]
<p>This handbill was produced during Crusade for Voters campaign in 1976.<br /><br />The Crusade for Voters in Richmond, Virginia was started by John Mitchell Brooks, Dr. William S. Thornton, Dr. William Ferguson Reid, Ethel T. Overby and Lola Hamilton.<br /><br />Excerpts:<br />WAKE UP! Richmond, Va. <br />Voters Needed<br />50,000 or more Voters<br />Needed to say that I am a citizen on election day<br />Down with apathy<br />Down with unemployment<br />Don't let the newspaper lull you to sleep<br />Be alert! Be a card carrying voter<br /><br />Any U.S. Citizen who will be 18 years or older before November 2, 1976 is eligible to vote<br /><br />IT IS FREE<br /><br />All Applicants MUST have their Social Security Number and know their birthdate. You must apply in person - no one can register for you. <br />IF YOU HAVE BEEN PURGED - PLEASE REGISTER.<br />...<br />"YOU GOTTA BELIEVE IT" YOUR ONE VOTE DOES COUNT</p>
Crusade for Voters Registration and Education Committee
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1976
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Learn more: <br />Davis, B.N. (2018). <a href="https://richmondmagazine.com/news/sunday-story/we-decided-to-start-a-third-party/" target="_blank" title="Interview with William Ferguson Reid of the Crusade for Voters" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘We Decided to Start a Third Party’</a> <em>Richmond Magazine <br /></em><a href="https://progressive.org/dispatches/nurturing-roots-90for90-black-political-power/" target="_blank" title="Nurturing the Roots: 90for90 and Black Political Power" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nurturing the Roots: 90for90 and Black Political Power.</a> The Progressive, July 15, 2016. <br />Komp, C. (2017, October 26). <a href="https://ideastations.org/radio/news/lasting-legacy-richmond-crusade-voters" target="_blank" title="Richmond Crusade for Voters" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Lasting Legacy of the Richmond Crusade for Voters.</a> Community Idea Stations. <br />Matthews, K. A. (2017). The Richmond Crusade for Voters. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing.
Waiting for the Verdict [Dr. Friedman and The Great White Plague]
<span>Editorial cartoon by C. R. Macauley, originally published in the New York <em>World.</em> Republished here in <em>Cartoons Magazine</em>, vol. 3, no. 4 (April 1913), p. 226. <br /><br />A skeletal spectre waits outside an office with a plaque labelled "Dr. Friedman." <br /><br />Friedrich Franz Friedmann was a tuberculosis researcher in Berlin who came to New York City in 1913 to give what he called the "turtle vaccine" to people who came to his clinic. The New York City Board of Health rejected his claims and the clinic was closed.</span>
Macauley, Charles Raymond
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1913 April
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Wages of Saleswomen: What the United States Government Says and What the Consumers' League Knows
This pamphlet by the Consumers' League is an analysis of the 1907-1910 Bureau of Labor report on the condition of woman and child wage earners in the United States. Specifically, this pamphlet looks into the 391 girls who worked in New York City's department stores.
Consumers' League
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
J J O'BRIEN & SON
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Voting Status of Negroes in Virginia and Procedures and Requirements for Voting in Virginia
This 1944 booklet is the Virginia Voters League’s fifth annual report. The League began in 1941 and worked with the NAACP in advocating for increased African American participation at the polls. It was led by <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Jackson_Luther_Porter_1892-1950#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Encyclopedia Virgina entry on Jackson" rel="noreferrer noopener">Luther P. Jackson</a>, an historian and civil rights advocate who formed the Petersburg League of Negro Voters in 1935, which developed into the Virginia Voters League. The booklet details African American voting strength and includes instructions for voter registration. <br /><br />At this time in Virginia, the payment of a poll tax for three consequtive years was a requirement for voting. The booklet notes that in 1943, the number of blacks who met the poll tax requirement was 32,504. That number increased to 41,579 in 1944. Nevertheless, those numbers represent only 9 to 11 per cent of Virginia blacks of voting age, or expressed another way, about 89 per cent of blacks were disqualified from voting in 1944. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />Title page: "With grant-in-aid of publication by the Virginia State Teachers Association, Virginia branches of the N.A.A.C.P., Virginia lodges of Elks, the Eureka Lodge of Norfolk, Virginia chapters of Greek letter fraternities and sororities, and the Virginia Negro Organization Society." <br /><br />p. 4 <br /><strong>Foreward</strong><br />This fifth annual report of the Virginia Voters League defines the voting status of Negroes in Virginia as of May 7, 1944, the last day for paying the poll tax in order to have voted in the ensuing August primary and the November election. In order to satisfy the demand for a statement of voting requirements in Virginia and other states this handbook devotes a section to this topic also. <br /><br />To all persons who seek to advance the political status of Negroes and to observe racial trends on suffrage in Virginia this publication may serve as a guide. <br /><br />The compiler of this report is again deeply indebted to the 124 county and city court clerks in Virginia for furnishing the data on poll tax paying either by letter or by sending the poll tax list itself. Every county and city is included in this report because every clerk cooperated. <br /><br /><strong>SLOGAN</strong><br /><strong>Pay the poll tax in order to abolish the poll tax. </strong>
Jackson, Luther P.
Virginia Voters League
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1944
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Voting Rights and Legal Wrongs. A Commentary on S. 1564, the proposed "Voting Rights Act of 1965..."
This booklet was distributed by the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government (VCCG) in opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Commission began in 1958 and existed until the late 1960s. <br /><br />Led by David J. Mays, a prominent lawyer and advisor to Virginia’s commission on the response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision, it advocated nationally for states’ rights and conservatism, and eventually distributed over 2 million published pamphlets, brochures and speeches.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />FOREWORD<br /><br />During the first eight weeks of 1965, demonstrations of increasing size and intensity in Selma, Ala., and later in Montgomery, attracted nationwide attention to the efforts of Alabama Negroes to secure their right to vote. The demonstrations reached a political climax on the evening of March 15, when the President asked a joint session of the Congress for the immediate adoption of a "Voting Rights Act of 1965." Remarkably, members of the United States Supreme Court, in their judical robes, sat in the front row applauding. <br /><br />Three days later, on March 18, identical bills were introduced in the House (HR 6400) and in the Senate (S. 1564) to carry out the President's recommendations. <br /><br />The Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government believes fervently in the right to vote....At the same time, the Commission adheres just as fervently to a conviction that the power to fix qualifications for voting, uniformly applied to all persons, is a power plainly reserved to the States under Article I of the Constitution.... <br /><br />The proposed "Voting Rights Act of 1965," in the Commission's view, transcends the authority vested in Congress. Its key provisions are triggered not by discrimination on account of race or color, but by arbitrarily defined statistical phenomena....<br /><br />In our view, the President is proposing to deal unconstitutionally with unconstitutional acts, thus piling a large subversion on a small one. He is proposing to go far beyond the limits of discrimination "on account of" race or color, in order to spread upon the statute books a harsh and punitive measure of general application, more drastic than any voting legislation proposed since Reconstruction days. The bill would grievously undermine our federal system; it would open the door to the obliteration of all State powers in the field of State and local elections.<br /><br />We do not oppose the President's aim. Surely the indefensible conditions that provoked the Alabama demonstrations must be remedied. But we are convinced the job can be done by a carefully drawn bill, strictly confined to denials and abridgments by reason of race or color. Such a bill would have this Commission's support...."<br /><br />James J. Kilpatrick, Chairman, Committee on Publications<br />Richmond, April, 1965.<br /> <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Commission+on+Constitutional+Government" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Other VCCG publications">Other VCCG publications</a> in the Image Portal
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-the-vote/gallery" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Discovery Set: Controlling the Vote">Controlling the Vote -- Rights. Registration. Representation.</a> Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/uncategorized/voting-rights-act-of-1965/" target="_blank" title="Introduction to the Voting Rights Act" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting Rights Act of 1965. An Introduction</a>. <em>Social Welfare History Project </em> <br /><br />Hayter, J. M. (2017). <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1p0vjw7" target="_blank" title="The Dream is lost." rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The dream is lost. Voting rights and the politics of race in Richmond, Virginia</em>.</a> Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky <br /><br />Moeser, J. V. & Dennis, R. M. (2020). <a href="https://doi.org/10.21974/02y5-eq41" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Open Access edition 2020"><em>The politics of annexation. Oligarchic power in a southern city.</em></a> Open Access Edition. Digital publisher: VCU Libraries. Original (1982) edition Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Company <br /><br />Hershman, J. H. Jr. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Massive Resistance">Massive Resistance</a>. (2011, June 29). <em>Encyclopedia Virginia</em>
Voting Rights Act...the first months
Within the first six weeks after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, staff attorneys from the Commission on Civil Rights visited 32 Southern counties and parishes to study the implementation of the legislation. This document is their report, transmitted to the President, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in November 1965. <br /><br />The Commission found widespread compliance, but also a need for further action. Their "Findings and Recommendations," along with the section titled, "Problems in Registration" are presented here. <br /><br />Read the report's <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll391:4298/p16022coll391:4185?child_index=9&query=&sidebar_page=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="read the report's history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965">Chapter 1: History of the Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p.34 Problems in Registration<br /><br />Some country registrars in Mississippi and Alabama have violated the new law by refusing to register illiterates....<br /><br />Delay has created a problem in Alabama and South Carolina, principally because these States have a restricted number of registration days. <br /><br />p. 35 In some counties in North Carolina, registrars conduct all but three days of registration in their own homes or places of business. Social and psychological barriers are likely to deter Negroes from seeking out a registrar in his exclusively white neighborhood.... <br /><br />Racial violence related to civil rights activities is another factor which has limited applications in some counties with examiners. The killing of seminarian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Daniels" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="biographical information on Jonathan Daniels">Jonathan Daniels</a> in Lowndes Country, Alabama, on August 20 and the acquittal of his killer on September 30 appear to have been the single most important factor in reducing Negro applications in that county. It is symbolic of conditions there that a pick-up truck with a rifle visibly displayed has been parked daily immediately outside the examiner's office since the opening of the office. Registration workers in the country have reported increasing threats against their lives and continued efforts to intimidate resident Negro leaders.<br /><br />------<br /><br />This booklet on the Voting Rights Act was part of a resource file on civil rights and voting in the files of the National Federation of Settlements. The Federation was active in community organizing for social justice, voting, and civil rights. The <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll391:4298/p16022coll391:4176" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="complete document and transcript">entire document along with a transcript</a> is available via the University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
United States Commission on Civil Rights
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1965
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
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Votes for Women. Suffrage Rallying Song
<span>Musical score.<br /><br />Published in 1915, this suffrage rallying song was composed by Marie and Edward Zimmerman of Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell on the cover reminded women to “Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof” as they sought the right to vote. <br />The song is dedicated to Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and “the Great Cause of Woman Suffrage.”<br /><br />Transcription: <br /><br />"What means this 'Votes for Women'? <br />Just this the time has come<br />When they may voice with freemen <br />Concerns of land and home!<br /><br />Then, snap the ancient tether<br />Enthralling us too long,<br />And stoutly pull together <br />To right a grievous wrong!<br /><br />The votes of sisters, mothers,<br />In ev'ry sovereign state,<br />For us and many others <br />May light the gloom of fate;<br /><br />The joyless haunt of drudges<br />Where children toil and die<br />May find these votes the judges<br />That ask the reason why!<br /><br />Then, sisters of our nation, <br />Put forth your mighiest nerve, <br />Remember with elation<br />The glorious cause you serve!<br /><br />Enlist your best endeavor, <br />What ever that may be;<br />With "Votes for Women" ever,<br />Press on to victory!"<br /><br /><br /></span>
Zimmerman, Edward M. (words)
Zimmerman, Marie (music)
<span>M 9 Box 231, </span><a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1915
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Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason. Because [suffrage handbill]
Handbill published by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. <br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason. Because <br /><br />BECAUSE women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men.<br />BECAUSE women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women suffer from bad government just as men do, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE mothers want to make their children's surroundings better, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE over 5,000,000 women in the United States are wage workers and their health and that of our future citizens are often endangered by evil working conditions that can only be remedied by legislation, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women of leisure who attempt to serve the public welfare should be able to support their advice by their votes, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE busy housemothers and professional women cannot give such public service, and can only serve the state by the same means used by the busy men--namely, by casting a ballot, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women are sonsumers, and sonsumers need fuller representation in politics, They should vote equally with men. <br />BECAUSE women are citizens of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and women are people. They should vote equally with men. <br />EQUAL SUFFRAGE FOR MEN AND WOMEN.<br />WOMEN Need It. <br />MEN Need IT. <br />The STATE Needs IT.<br />WHY?<br />BECAUSE Women Ought to GIVE Their Help.<br />Men Ought to HAVE Their Help.<br />The State Ought to USE Their Help.
New York State Woman Suffrage Association.
<div><a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00081.xml" target="_blank" title="Women's Suffrage Printed Ephemera Collection" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage Printed Ephemera Collection, 1860-1917</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries</div>
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Learn more: <br />"<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/126" target="_blank" title="Let Me Help, Uncle" rel="noreferrer noopener">Let Me Help, Uncle</a>" (political cartoon), Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=suffrage" target="_blank" title="suffrage materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=cartoon">Editorial cartoons</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br />Annotate a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/7bd2bdb2ca5a113f848a6dd12b30a796.pdf" target="_blank" title="Annotate this document" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this document</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="What is hypothes.is?" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>
Votes for Men. [anti-suffrage handbill]
Anti-suffrage handbill arguing that women have the right to exemption from political duties and to protection, "even against herself, if need be." <br /><br />An advertisement for a weekly journal, <em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066509266;view=2up;seq=6" target="_blank" title="The Woman Patriot, no. 3-4" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Woman Patriot</a>,</em> is included on this handbill. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />"VOTES FOR MEN<br />============<br />'It's up to you, Son," says Uncle Sam.' <br />Stand by the Women! <br />Vote for Women's Rights! <br /><br />The one indisputable right of woman in relation to the State is exemption from political duties. <br /><br />If you vote for the ballot for women, you vote to start a corrupting force for all heedless women, a burden on good women. The man who opposes women's so-called emancipation is the far-sighted lover of his country and his kind. <br /><br />Can man do woman's work? No, no more can woman do man's work. Man and Woman stand side by side as two EQUAL but DIVERSE human entities. Woman's nature is fundamentally organically different from man's. <br /><br />Her right is the right to protection. The whole duty of man towards woman is to protect her, even against herself, if need be. She has a right to be protected, because she can't live a normal life without protection."<br /><br />Reverse side titled "Women's Rights" has quotations from Herbert Spencer, John Bright, and Miss Ida M. Tarbell.
Pennsylvania Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=anti-suffrage" target="_blank" title="Anti-suffrage materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anti-suffrage</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066509266;view=2up;seq=6" target="_blank" title="The Woman Patriot, no. 3-4" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Woman Patriot</a>, </em>HathiTrust.org <br /><br />Annotate a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/2ec815626443faf1899ff829f2badc16.pdf" target="_blank" title="PDF of this item" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this item</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="What is hypothes.is?" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>
Vote. [League of Women Voters poster by Louis Bonhajo]
Poster shows a muse-like figure pointing towards the Capitol as a woman deposits her ballot into a locked ballot box. The voting woman holds the hand of a small female child dressed in pink.<br /><br />Poster text: "VOTE / League of Women Voters" <br /><br /><span>Printed by Erie Litho & Ptg Co.<br />Illustration by Louis Valentine Bonhajo (1885-1970) </span>
League of Women Voters
M 9 Box 233 f7, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a> (location Oversize Ephemera Material in Map Drawer #23), James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1920
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Volunteer staff, Seventeenth Street Mission, 1915
<span>Postcard photo of the volunteer staff from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, the General Assembly's Training School, and probably others. <br />Reverse of postcard contains message to W. G. Somerville from M. M. Grey.<br /><br />"3/22/15<br />Glad to hear from you and hope to reply shortly. This picture was taken at 17th St a week ago yesterday. Wish you cd have been with us yesterday. Best rally day we ever had.<br /><br />Scholars 406<br />Teachers 28<br />--------------<br /> 434<br />Coll $4.15<br />Hope you are getting on OK. I am eager for summer to come. Got [burned?] out a west [wood?] Friday, but OK now. <br />M.M.G."</span>
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1915 March 22
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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Voice from within: Is he still there? [editorial cartoon by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick]
Editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel R. Fitzpatrick of the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em>. <br /><br />Image Description: <br /><br />A man who appears to be Japanese, labelled "Racial Equality" sits patiently. A shuttered window behind him is marked "Peace Conference." The caption: Voice from within: Is he still there?
Fitzpatrick, Daniel R.
<em>Cartoons Magazine</em><span>, v.16, no. 1, (July 1919), p. 104. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries</span>
1919
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Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage [broadside]
Reprint of an editorial from the <em>Richmond Evening Journal</em>, May 4, 1915. <br /><br />"Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage <br />---- <br />Twenty-nine counties would go under Negro Rule Over sixty counties in the State of Georgia <br />The entire State of Mississippi <br />----- <br />What of your state, your country? Isn't it about time for reflecting men and women to think--and act? <br />---- <br />THE THREATENED COUNTIES <br />From the Richmond Evening Journal May 4, 1915--Republished by Request <br /><br />Several times The Richmond Evening Journal has be asked to say which counties of Virginia have more colored than white female inhabitants. The question , of course, is in connection with the somewhat noisy demands we read of in the newspapers for "votes for women." Here is the list, from the United States census of 1910:<br /><br />...It is to be remembered that the literacy test would not work in choking off the colored woman vote. The colored people are decreasing their percentage of illiteracy very fast, especially among their women and girls. The ladies of the suffrage league will hardly come forward with a property test. No safeguard would be left but the poll tax; and if colored women knew they could get votes and rule some very rich and important counties by paying $1.50 apiece, we are inclined to think most of them would be willing to go hungry, if necessary to do it. <br /><br />Probably the ladies engaged in this suffrage movement are not very practical or very logical or very well informed or disposed to bother their heads with the actual facts of politics. Most of them, we surmise, hold the somewhat vague, but firmly established feminine line of reasoning that when they want something , or think they want it, they ought to have it by all principles of wisdom and justice; and are prepared always to fall back on the traditional conclusive feminine argument "because."
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1915
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Virginia Suffrage News, vol. 1, no.3, December 1914
A publication of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. <br /><br />The ESL formed in November 1909 in Richmond, Va. Lila Meade Valentine served as the first president. Adele Goodman Clark, Nora Houston, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Kate Waller Barrett, and Kate Langley Bosher were among the approximately 20 women who founded the group. In 1910, Ellen Gertrude Kidd, owner of "Pin Money Pickles" became treasurer of the ESL.
Equal Suffrage League
M 9 Box 56, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1914 December
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Virginia Suffrage News, vol. 1, no. 2, November 1914
A publication of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. <br /><br />The ESL formed in November 1909 in Richmond, Va. Lila Meade Valentine served as the first president. Adele Goodman Clark, Nora Houston, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Kate Waller Barrett, and Kate Langley Bosher were among the approximately 20 women who founded the group. In 1910, Ellen Gertrude Kidd, owner of "Pin Money Pickles" became treasurer of the ESL. An advertisement for Pin Money Pickles appears on p. 16 of this issue.
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
M 9 Box 56, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1914 November
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Virginia Suffrage News, vol. 1, no. 1, October 1, 1914
First issue of the Virginia Suffrage News, a monthly newspaper published by the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. <br /><br />From masthead p. 4<br />Alice Overbey Taylor, Managing Editor<br />Mr.s G. Harvey Clarke (Mary Pollard Clarke), Editor-in-Chief <br />Contributing Editors: <br />Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett<br />Mrs. Kate Langley Bosher<br />Mrs. Emma Speed Sampson<br />Miss Mary Johnston<br />Mr. Carter Wormeley<br />Mrs. Sally Nelson Robins<br />Miss Cally Ryland <br /><br />The lead article is "W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, Declares for Woman Suffrage" <br /><br />Foreword message from Lila Meade Valentine, President of the ESL of Virginia (p. 1)<br /><br />"The movement for the enfranchisement of woman has become so widespread in Virginia that there is great need for a regular means of communication between workers and sympathizers in all parts of the State....<br /><br />For this is pre-eminently a co-operative movement--one in which good team work is required--one in which we must all pull together with a right good will. <br /><br />To do this effectively, we need the stimulus of the exchange of ideas, we need to inform ourselves of the activities of our local Leagues, as well as of the larger movement outside.<br /><br />To meet these needs, I commend to the suffragists of the State the "<strong>Virginia Suffrage News</strong>," which should bind us together in one harmonious whole, and I bespeak for it a wide circulation amongst all those interested in this next great step in the development of women." <br /><br />p. 8 "Suffragists Chuckle Over 'Etching' That Was Never Made for 'Lack of Space.'" recounts the story of an anti-suffrage essay contest held by the Richmond <em>News-Leader</em>, an "all-white" paper. The newspaper intended to publish an etching (portrait) of the winner until it was discovered that she was an African American.
M 9, Box 56,<span> </span><a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a><span>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries</span>
1914 October 1
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Equal_Suffrage_League_of_Virginia_1909-1920" target="_blank" title="ESL of Virginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equal Suffrage League of Virginia</a>, Encyclopedia Virginia <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/national-woman-suffrage-association/" target="_blank" title="NWSA" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Woman Suffrage Association</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Virginia State Board of Elections Bulletin No. 29, May 22, 1958 [blank sheet voter registration]
Bulletin No. 29 addressed To ALL REGISTRARS OF VIRGINIA. Stamped in red "Important Read Carefully." <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />The 1958 session of the General Assembly made several changes in the Election Laws of Virginia stressing the duties of the registrars and the procedure to be followed by all the registrars throughout the State in registering applicants who are eligible to have their names placed on the registration books in order that a uniform system will be stictly adherred to. <br /><br />If each registrar will follow the procedure whih is outlined below, step by step, in registering voters, we believe he will be fully meeting the requirements of the new law. <br /><br />1. Every person applying for registration should be furnished one of the Information Sheets, Form No. 1, which we have printed and are furnishing each registrar, containing the pertinenet provisions of Chapter 576 of the Acts of the 1958 General Assembly and Section 20 of the Constitution of Virginia. <br /><br />2. The registrar shall furnish the applicant a sheet of paper containing no written or printed data; in other words, just a blank sheet of paper for the applicant to supply in his own handwriting the information required by Section 20 of the Constitution and Section 24-68 of the Code, which is as follows: <br /><br />1. Name of applicant. <br />2. Age of applicant. <br />3. Date of applicant's birth. <br />4. Place of applicant's birth. <br />5. Residence of applicant at the time application is made. <br />6. Residence of applicant for one year next preceding the making of the application. <br />7. Occupation of applicant at the time application is made. <br />8. Occupation of applicant for one year next preceding the making of the application. <br />9. Whether applicant has previously voted. <br />10. If applicant has previously voted, the State, County and precinct in which applicant last voted. <br /><br />While making his application for registration, which must be done in the presence of the registrar, the applicant shall not be permitted to refer to any pamphlet, booklet or other memorandum, printed or written, nor to discuss with any person any matter concerning the requirements necessary in order to register other than the provisions of Section 20 of the Constitution and Section 24-68 of the Code which we have printed for his use on Form No. 1. If an applicant makes application in his or her own handwriting, and without aid, suggestion or memorandum, other than the right to refer to the pertinent provisions of the Code and the Constitution, then such applicant has satisfied the requirements of the law, so far as a written application is required.
Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Elections
M 306 Box 2, folder 6, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/145" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Crusade for Voters collection</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU LIbraries
1958 May 22
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://progressive.org/dispatches/nurturing-roots-90for90-black-political-power/" target="_blank" title="Nurturing the Roots: 90for90 and Black Political Power" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nurturing the Roots: 90for90 and Black Political Power.</a> The Progressive, July 15, 2016.
Virginia Home for Incurables, W. Broad and Robinson streets, Richmond, Virginia
In 1894, Mary Tinsley Greenhow, who as a teenager was paralyzed during a horse riding accident, founded the Virginia Home for Incurables. Disabled Richmonders needing life-long care lived at the home near Capitol Square. <br /><br />In 1898, the home moved to W. Broad and Robinson streets, across from the future site of the Science Museum of Virginia. It moved to its present location on Hampton Street in Byrd Park in 1930. The name shortened to The Virginia Home in 1963. <br /><br />Today, Virginia residents at least 18 years of age with an irreversible physical disability can apply for residence. The Virginia Home provides nursing and medical care, therapy, counseling services, job and recreational opportunities to its residents.
Cook, Huestis P. (likely photographer)
Cook Collection, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine,</a>
c. 1900
The Valentine
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Learn more:<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/labor/passaic-textile-strike-1926-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Passaic Textile Strike, 1926</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/labor/passaic-textile-strike-1926-film/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=labor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Labor</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Virginia Federation of Labor Convention Badge. Bristol, Va., April 3, 4, 5, 1922
Virginia Federation of Labor delegate's convention badge. Delegates represented local unions at the state gathering. <br /><br /><span>The Virginia Federation of Labor was aligned with the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/228" target="_blank" title="AFL Song" rel="noreferrer noopener">American Federation of Labor</a>, the powerful organization of unions led by Samuel Gompers. Although southern workers struggled to organize successfully in large numbers, unions nonetheless became a force. Between 1885 and 1890, according to one historian, twenty-three national or international unions organized locals in Virginia. Another scholar estimates that by the turn of the twentieth century, about 10% of Richmond’s industrial workers were represented by unions. That success was tempered, however, by the pervasive racism of the period. <br /><br />When the Knights of Labor held a national convention in Richmond in 1886, the New York delegation was refused accommodations because one of their members was an African American. By 1919 progress in racial cooperation had been made at the national level. That progress was reflected at the Virginia State Federation of Labor’s annual convention, in the same year, in Alexandria. W.H. Page, of Newport News, became the first African American to be appointed to the Virginia group’s executive council. Black labor leaders, and black newspapers, praised the move, but it also prompted angry backlash. Some two thousand white unionists, of Richmond, left the Federation of Labor in protest of Page’s appointment. Those episodes evoke the racial tensions of the Jim Crow South.</span><br /><br />Image Description: <br />This round badge has blue lettering on a white background with a multi-color <a href="https://archive.org/details/statearmsofunion00lpra/page/n7" target="_blank" title="State Arms of the Union, L. Prang & Co, 1876" rel="noreferrer noopener">coat of arms of Virginia</a> in the center. <br /><br />Inscribed in blue: "27TH ANNUAL CONVENTION / VA. FEDERATION OF LABOR" above the seal and "APRIL 3.4.5, 1922, BRISTOL, VA." below. <br /><br />Suspended from oval badge inscribed : "DELEGATE". <br />The back of the badge reads "The Whitehead and Hoag Co. Buttons, Badges, Novelties and Signs. Newark, N.J."
<a href="http://museumcatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" title="Virginia Historical Society catalog" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span>2002.148.6</span></a>, Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1922
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Learn more: <br />Love, R. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Labor_in_Virginia_During_the_Twentieth_Century#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Labor in Virginia during the twentieth century" rel="noreferrer noopener">Labor in Virginia during the twentieth century.</a> <em>Encyclopedia Virginia <br /></em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924054330513;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank" title="Official proceedings of the 27th annual convention" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia Federation of Labor proceedings of the 27th annual session held at Bristol, Virginia, April Third and Fourth, 1922.</a> HathiTrust.org <br />Harold, C. N. (2016). New Negro politics in the Jim Crow south. (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press).<br />Kimball, G. (1991, April). The working people of Richmond: life and labor in an industrial city, 1865-1920. <em>Labor's Heritage,</em> 3(2). <br />Woman's Work. <em>Sixteenth Annual Session of the Virginia Federation of Labor, Richmond, Virginia</em>. <em>June 6-7-8, 1911</em>, 25-26. <br /><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1911-06-10/ed-1/seq-5/" target="_blank" title="VFL endorses Equal Suffrage League through Johnston's work" rel="noreferrer noopener">Note of Thanks to Miss Johnston</a>. <em>The Times Dispatch</em>. (Richmond, Va.), 10 June 1911, p. 5. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
Virginia Conference on Race Relations, The Southern Workman, January 1931
This article reports on the Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations held October 28, 1930 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Va. The theme of the conference was "Facing the Facts with a Christian Program." Dr. Ben Lacy, Jr. President of Union Theological Seminary, presided over the gathering of leaders of white church groups in Virginia, and representative of Virginia schools and colleges. <br /><br />Speakers presented findings of "The Negro in Richmond, Virgina" a study completed by the Negro Welfare Suvey Committee in 1929. Topics such as housing, education, community health and infant mortality were discussed. Other matters covered included the possible re-release of "Birth of a Nation" as a sound film, lynchings, and interracial cooperation. The Hon. John Pollard, Governor of the Commonwealth and Dr. Robert R. Moton , principal of Tuskegee Institute addressed "a great interracial mass meeting attended by a thousand prominent citizens in addition to members of the conference." (p. 7)<br /><br />See <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Church+Conference+on+Race+Relations" target="_blank" title="conference materials in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">all the materials</a> related to this conference.
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Learn more: <br /><br />Drew, W. M. (2010). The last silent picture show : silent films on American screens in the 1930s. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. (See chapter 2). <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Church+Conference+on+Race+Relations" target="_blank" title="materials related to this conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia Church Conference on Interracial Relations</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
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. <br /><br />The parent organization, the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="materials related to the CIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a> (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, <em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?collection=10" target="_blank" title="issues of The Southern Frontier" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Southern Frontier</a>. <br /><br /><br /></em>
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Virginia Anti-Saloon League State Law-Enforcement Convention. February 1-2, 1922. Program and Invitation
Program for the Virginia Anti-Saloon League State Law-Enforcement Convention held February 1-2, 1922, and the letter that accompanied it. Letter (dated January 28, 1922) is from <a href="https://vagenweb.org/scott/HSpubl28.html" target="_blank" title="J. P. McConnell biographical information" rel="noreferrer noopener">J. P. McConnell</a> (James Preson McConnell), President of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, 1921-1928. <br /><br />The conference presents a mix of religious, patriotic, and legislative strategy. The governor of Virgina, E. Lee Trinkle, was scheduled to speak very briefly on the final evening.
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/religious/the-temperance-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Temperance Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/temperance-and-prohibition/gallery" target="_blank" title="Discovery Set, Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Temperance and Prohibition</a>. Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/13" target="_blank" title="Anti-Saloon league broadside, Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">What the Bottle Does. One Year's Work</a>. Anti-Saloon League of Virginia broadside <br />Pegram, T. R. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Anti-Saloon_League_of_Virginia" target="_blank" title="Anti-Saloon League of Virginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anti-Saloon League of Virginia</a>, Encyclopedia of Virginia <br /><a href="https://mozart.radford.edu/archives/findingaids/anti-saloon.html" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia Anti-Saloon League Collection</a>, Radford University