Why Should Women Vote? An Appeal to Gallant Men. [suffrage pamphlet]
Pro-suffrage pamphlet containing editorial cartoons by <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Lou+Rogers" target="_blank" title="cartoons by Lou Rogers" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lou Rogers</a>, Phil Porter, and <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=John+T.+McCutcheon" target="_blank" title="cartoons by John T. McCutcheon" rel="noreferrer noopener">John T. McCutcheon</a>, along with a map showing where women can vote.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p.1 (cover) "WHY SHOULD WOMEN VOTE? <br />This booklet contains all the OBJECTIONS to woman suffrage, their ANSWERS, and the CREAM of all that has been said or written on this subject from Moses and Plato down to Saint Paul and the year of our Lord, 1915. <br /><br />The map that's more than half woman suffrage already -- what's the matter with making it ALL woman suffrage?<br /><br />In the LIGHT States, women enjoy full suffrage. In the shaded States, women have taxation, bond, or school suffrage. In Illinois, women have Presidential, partial county and State, and municipal suffrage. In the DARK States, women have NO vote at all. <br /><br />AN APPEAL TO GALLANT MEN."<br /><br />p. 4 "Which side will get YOUR vote?...<br /><br />Chief Justice Green said, 'The opponents of woman suffrage in Washington find themselves allied with a solid phalanx of gamblers, pimps, prostitutes, drunkards and drunkard-makers.' <br /><br />When respectable people find themselves in alliance with scoundreldom, is it not worth while to stop and consider whether they have not taken their stand in the wrong company?"
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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
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
Register! Vote!
Poster reprinted from <em>Collier's </em>encouraging qualified citizens to register and vote in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_United_States_presidential_election" target="_blank" title="1924 presidential election" rel="noreferrer noopener">1924 presidential election</a>. Voter turnout that year would fall short of the <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections" target="_blank" title="voter turnout statistics for U.S. presidential elections" rel="noreferrer noopener">1920</a> count. <br /><br />Text: <br /><br />Register! Vote!<br />Don't be a parlor patriot. Don't be a rocking-chair Paul Revere. <br />How Qualified Citizens Voted: <br />1896......80%<br />1900......73% <br />1912......62% <br />1920......49% <br />Let's Make 1924 the Year of the Big Vote <br /><br />Reprinted from Collier's, The National Weekly
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Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926
Group portrait of attendees at the Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926. <br /><br />The conference was held by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Inc. (the Federal Council of Churches), the Council of Women for Home Missions, and the National Board of the YWCA. <br /><br />Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook (Mary L. Westbrook) of Brooklyn, NY, was the conference chairman. She stands in the front row (fifth from right) next to <a href="https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/brown-charlotte-hawkins0" target="_blank" title="NCpedia article on Charlotte Hawkins Brown" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charlotte Hawkins Brown</a>, founder of Palmer Memorial Center, who stands in the front row center. <br /><br />Delegates identified: <br />First row: <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006944501&view=2up&seq=616" target="_blank" title="article by Brown. See page 587 for photo" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Sara W. Brown</a> (YWCA), second from left. <br />Mrs. L. W. Kyles (A.M.E. Zion Church, Winston Salem, NC), third from left.<br /><a href="https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/brown-charlotte-hawkins0" target="_blank" title="NCpedia article on Charlotte Hawkins Brown" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charlotte Hawkins Brown</a> (founder Palmer Memorial Center), center. <br />Mary L. Westbrook (conference chair), fifth from right.<br />Miss <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_del_Vakia_Bowles" target="_blank" title="biographical information" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eva del Vakia Bowles</a> (YWCA), second from right.<br /><br />Second row: <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/labor/anderson-mary/" target="_blank" title="Mary Anderson, Social Welfare History Project" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mary Anderson</a> (first director U.S. Women's Bureau) third from left. <br />Mrs. John Ferguson (Council of Women for Home Missions), fourth from right.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edmund_Haynes" target="_blank" title="biographical information on George Edmund Haynes" rel="noreferrer noopener">George Edmund Haynes</a> (sociologist, National Urban League), fourth row center.<br /><br />Third row: Adele Clark (League of Women Voters), left at end.<br /><br />Top row: <a href="https://findingaids.library.uic.edu/sc/MSDiec74.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid to Dieckmann papers at UIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annetta M. Dieckmann</a> (YWCA, Industrial Dept.), third from left.<br /><br />The Eagles Mere conference was noteworthy because it brought together white and black women leaders to study the possibilities of larger cooperation. Also of significance, delegates to the conference represented both the North and the South, giving the discussions a nationwide scope (<em>Federal Council Bulletin</em>, September-October, 1926, p.7).<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="documents related to Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to this conference.
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Learn more: <br /><br />Adams, B. L. (2016). Black women's Christian activism. Seeking social justice in a northern suburb. New York: New York University Press. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="items tagged Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interracial Conference of Church Women</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Virginia (white) Denominational Conference on Race Relations, October 28, 1930. Program and Resolution on "The Birth of a Nation."
Alternate name: Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations. <br /><br />A meeting of white religious leaders convened to discuss how churches might take a leadership role in race relations. <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">See all documents</a> related to this event.
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Pilgrimage of Prayer for Public Schools, January 1, 1959 [broadside]
Broadside advertising A Pilgrimage of Prayer for Public Schools, January 1, 1959 in Richmond, Va. At this event, organizers played a seven-minute pre-recorded message from Dr. King. A <a href="The%20Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr.%20Research%20and%20Education%20Institute" target="_blank" title="transcription of Walker's letter to Dr. King" rel="noreferrer noopener">description of the event</a> by Wyatt Tee Walker as reported to Dr. King is available online. More than 1,500 people attended. <br /><br />Text: <br />Martin Luther King joins your Religious and Civic Leaders in Urging All Virginians to Come to Richmond in A Pilgrimage For Public Schools on EMANCIPATION DAY January 1, 1959. <br /><br />You will assemble at THE MOSQUE Laurel and Main Streets promptly at 2:30 P.M. <br /><br />"Let us not deceive ourselves! We have among us politicians who will not hesitate to CLOSE ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA. We must demonstrate to Virginia and the nation by our presence and action that we will not tolerate this crime against Virginia's children." --Dr. Philip Y. Wyatt <br /><br />WHICH WILL IT BE? Free Eduation? or Closed Schools? <br /><br />"Only through the preservation of a free, desegregated public school system can a people be fully emancipated from the shackles of prejudice and inequality. American democracy itself is at stake. This is your pilgrimage." --The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker
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1959
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/wyatt-tee-walker-1#ftnref6" target="_blank" title="Transcription of letter" rel="noreferrer noopener">Text of letter from Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, to Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> reporting on a 1 January Prayer Pilgrimage to protest the efforts of Virginia officials to block public school integration. Stanford University, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. <br /><br /><a href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11237274" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Leaflet. Passive Resisance to Massive Resistance</a>. Leaflet with photographs of the Prayer Pilgrimage. Digital Collections. Yale University Library.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/brown/pilgrimage.htm" target="_blank" title="Program for the Pilgrimage of Prayer in Richmond, VA" rel="noreferrer noopener">Program, Pilgrimage of Prayer for Public Schools, January 1, 1959.</a> Library of Virginia.<br /><br /></div>
<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=massive+resistance" target="_blank" title="Massive resistance materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive resistance</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" title="Massive resistance" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive resistance</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia. <br /></em><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/wyatt-tee-walker-dead.html" target="_blank" title="NYT Obituary" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wyatt Tee Walker, Dr. King's Strategist and a Harlem Leader, Dies at 88</a>, <em>The New York Times. <br /></em><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Martin+Luther+King+Jr." target="_blank" title="items related to MLK, Jr." rel="noreferrer noopener">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal.
You've got it...USE IT! [Richmond Crusade for Voters flyer]
Richmond Crusade for Voters flyer. A hand brings down a heavy hammer that says VOTE, and breaks a chain. <br /><br />Text: <br />you've got it...USE IT! <br /><br />Votes mean FREEDOM. Register and vote<br />Votes mean EQUALITY. Register and vote<br />Votes mean first-class citizenship. Register and vote. <br />Votes mean better schools, better jobs, better housing. Register and vote <br />USE YOUR VOTE TO WIN YOUR RIGHTS<br />To Vote in November, you must REGISTER NOW!
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Learn more: <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.
Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va., February, 1915
Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va. in front of Washington Monument, Capitol Square, Richmond. The members of the ESL were promoting the suffrage film, "<a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/your-girl-and-mine-suffrage-film/" target="_blank" title="story of this photograph and the film" rel="noreferrer noopener">Your Girl and Mine.</a>" <br /><br />Photo published in <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1915-02-28/ed-1/seq-42/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Times-Dispatch</em>: Richmond, Va., February 28, 1915, p. 10</a> <br /><br /><p>Members of the Equal Suffrage League photographed that day:</p>
<p>(left to right in car) Mrs. G. Harvey Clarke (<a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Clarke_Mary_Ellen_Pollard&_ga=2.175183970.1173708905.1558717188-1276624888.1558717188" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke</a>), Mrs. Roy Knight Flannagan (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93140564/lucy-catesby-flannagan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lucy Catesby Jones Flannagan</a>),<span> </span><a href="http://edu.lva.virginia.gov/changemakers/items/show/94" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nora Houston</a>, Mrs. John Grant Armistead (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40540426/rosalie-fontaine-armistead" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rosalie Fontaine Jones Armistead</a>), Mrs.<span> </span><a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Taylor_Alice_Overbey&_ga=2.185137257.1173708905.1558717188-1276624888.1558717188" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alice Overbey Taylor</a>, Mrs. Della E. Hooker (widow of J. W. Hooker), Mrs. Charles Vivian Meredith (<a href="https://richmondmagazine.com/news/features/richmond-suffragist-sophie-meredith/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sophie “Posie” Meredith</a>), Mrs. Georgia May Johnson (identified on photo as Mrs. Frank L. Johnson; perhaps Mrs.<span> </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hmQ9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=francis+l+johnson+old+dominion+coal+corp&source=bl&ots=bETL0B_lEw&sig=ACfU3U2hYihe-aIG6jsYMAGaLf5lrnXvnw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi79tSa99fiAhUj1lkKHRjKDOsQ6AEwAHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=francis%20l%20johnson%20old%20dominion%20coal%20corp&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Francis L. Johnson</a>)</p>
<p>(left to right outside car)<span> </span><a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00102.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Clark</a>, Mrs. Archer Gracchus Jones (<a href="http://www.thepoeblog.org/museum-recreates-poes-richmond/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annie Boyd Jones</a>), Mrs. John Garland Pollard (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37651927/grace-pollard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Grace Phillips Pollard</a>), Mrs. Carter Wormeley (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19513230/sarah-wormeley" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sarah Harvie Wormeley</a>), Mrs. Earnest Meade (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93376565/aline-jennings-mead" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aline Jennings Mead</a>(e),<span> </span><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29082011/visitors_at_wedding_of_aline_jennings/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mrs. Earnest C. B. Meade</a>),<span> </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57096212/lynda-mcclanahan-vaughan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lynda McCalanahan Koiner</a>, Mrs.<span> </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15612088/james-stuart-reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">James Stuart Reynolds</a><span> </span>(<a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/2006/09/the-boogie-and-ginnie-double-act/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia “Boogie” Dickinson Reynolds</a>), Mrs. W. Hill Urquhart (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20794946/dorothy-gordon-urquhart" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dorothy Gordon Tait Urquhart</a>), Mrs. W. W. Foster (<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147546190/carrie-palmore-foster" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Carrie Palmore Hughes Foster</a>)</p>
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Learn more: <br />Campbell, A.W. (2019). <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/your-girl-and-mine-suffrage-film/" target="_blank" title="Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film)" rel="noreferrer noopener">Your Girl and Mine (suffrage film)</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Equal+Suffrage+League" target="_blank" title="Equal Suffrage League" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equal Suffrage League</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."
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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.
High school seniors embark by bus to voter registration, Atlanta, Ga., 1959
Photograph of students from <a href="https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/52771" target="_blank" title="Luther Judson Price High School" rel="noreferrer noopener">Luther Judson Price High School</a> of Atlanta, Ga., prepare to register to vote. <br /><br />Caption attached to photograph: <br />"18 year old high school students of Atlanta, Georgia as they embark by bus to register in the 1959 Voter Registration Campaign of the All Citizens Registration Committee headed by Mr. Jesse Hill, Jr., Actuary of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co."<br /><br />Handwritten on back of photograph: <br />"R.E. Cureton, Principal of Price High School, Atlanta, Ga., confers with members of the Senior Class as they embark by bus to register in the 1959 Voter-Registration Campaign of the All Citizens Registration Committee headed by <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/jesse-hill-1927-2012" target="_blank" title="Jesse Hill (1927-2012), New Georgia Encyclopedi" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jesse Hill, Jr.</a> Actuary of the <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/atlanta-life-insurance-company" target="_blank" title="Atlanta Life Insurance Co. history, New Georgia Encyclopedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Atlanta Life Insurance Co.</a> All six Atlanta High Schools participated in this program and registered 18 year old students (eligible to vote under Georgia law) nearly 100%."
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1959
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Learn more: <br />Holmes, R. A. (2005). <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/black-suffrage-twentieth-century" target="_blank" title="Black suffrage in the twentieth century" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black suffrage in the twentieth century</a>. <em>New Georgia Encyclopedia</em> <br />Myers, B. (2006). <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/jesse-hill-1927-2012" target="_blank" title="Jesse Hill" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jesse Hill (1927-2012)</a>. <em>New Georgia Encyclopedia <br /></em><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/uncategorized/voting-rights-act-of-1965/" target="_blank" title="Voting Rights Act of 1965, introduction" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Introduction</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/the-voting-rights-act-of-1965/" target="_blank" title="Voting Rights Act of 1965" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Socialism--By Federal Amendment / The Red Behind the Black
Two-sided handbill. One side uses quotations from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Messenger_(magazine)" target="_blank" title="The Messenger (magazine)" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Messenger</em></a> (1917-1928) to associate woman suffrage, black voting, and a socialist takeover of the United States government. <br /><br />The handbill argues that Socialists will benefit if a "Force Bill" introduced by Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eli_Watson" target="_blank" title="James Eli Watson" rel="noreferrer noopener">James E. Watson</a> of Indiana were to be passed to enforce the 19th Amendment. The text raises the issues of interracial marriage and desegregation as threats. <br /><br />On the reverse, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Nearing" target="_blank" title="Scott Nearing in Wikipedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Scott Nearing</a> is quoted as having replied to the question, "How do you propose to take property away from its owners?"<br /><br />"By CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT--in the same way that the property of the brewers and distillers was taken by Constitutional Amendment. The Prohibitionists have shown us the way in which property can be taken for public purposes without compensation to the owners," etc.<br />--From The Review, Feb. 7, 1920, Page 130
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Elihu Root Warns the South [anti-suffrage broadside]
Broadside publishing an essay by James Callaway, editor of the <em>Macon Telegraph</em> and an ardent anti-suffragist. <br /><br />Callaway quotes Senator William Borah: <br /><br />"The cornerstone of the very fabric of our system is the right of local self-government as to who shall vote in the State, or who shall own property and lands or attend schools in a State. These are prerogatives of the State, not of the Federal government. What I am contending for is this--that which is local in its nature as I conceive this suffrage matter to be, should be permitted to remain local. <br /><br />The right to vote can never, in the nature of things, under our system be other than a local question, for upon it rests the very integrity and the sovereignty of the State." <br /><br />Callaway discusses "complications" with the Federal government (including the Supreme Court that had decided against disenfranchisement laws) brought about when States cannot decide who gets to vote. He declares that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_primaries" target="_blank" title="white primaries" rel="noreferrer noopener">white primary</a> was important for protecting white rural women in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region)" target="_blank" title="definition of "black belt" region of the U.S." rel="noreferrer noopener">black belt</a> and making it safe for them to leave their homes without escort. <br /><br />"Talk about emancipation of women--of freedom and a war for humanity--when the Susan B. Anthony amendment will close the public highways to our women of the rural districts, and again make them the victims of the 'terrorism,' that frightfulness which superinduced nervous debility."
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Senator John T. Morgan Denounces Woman Suffrage. "He Being Dead, yet Speaketh"
Anti-suffrage broadside that argues voting will corrupt women, and, more urgently, that increasing the number of black votes will bring about the end of white supremacy in Alabama. The words of Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler_Morgan" target="_blank" title="John Tyler Morgan" rel="noreferrer noopener">John Tyler Morgan</a>, a staunch proponent of white supremacist ideology, and Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Tayloe" target="_blank" title="William Henry Tayloe" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Henry Tayloe</a>, a wealthy plantation owner, are quoted. Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper are mentioned. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />"White Supremacy Totters in Alabama. Men of the South, Shall It Fall? Woe Be Unto That Man who Would Betray Us. Judge W. H. Tayloe, one of Alabama's Ablest and Informed Statesmen, adds this Warning, Backed by Facts, Figures and Personal Experience." <br /><br />"It is not the moral influence of woman upon the ballot that I am objecting to, and it is not to get rid of that, or to silence or destroy such influence that I oppose it, but it is the IMMORAL influence of the ballot upon woman, that I depreciate and would avoid. <br />I do not want to see her drawn into contact with the rude things of this world, where the delicacy of her senses and sensibilities would be constantly wounded by the attrition with bad and desperate and foul politicians and men. Such is not her function and is not her office; and if we degrade her from the high station that God has place her in to put her at the ballot-box, at political or other elections, we UNMAN ourselves and refuse to do the duties that God as assigned to us." <br /><br />"Though the Supreme Court of the Nation has held that the 14th and 15th amendments were not grants of power to Congress but limitations upon the power of the States; yet it found a way to declare void the provisions of the Constitution of Oklahoma that eliminated the negro in that State as a voter. How soon will it find a way to require the States to let the negro vote? Who can tell?" <br /><br />"Men of the South, the 15th Amendment but sleeps. Write your State Legislators TO-DAY to VOTE AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE."
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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."
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1915
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Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, Suffrage Procession, Saturday, May 9, 1914 [handbill]
Handbill advertising the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage procession, May 9, 1914. The women were demanding a United States Constitutional Amendment Enfranchising Women. The march gathered at the Belasco Theatre and processed to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. <br /><br />Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2, 1914 in support of Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing "The March of the Women" composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton.
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1914
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Learn more: <br />Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000269" target="_blank" title="Library of Congress photo of this rally" rel="noreferrer noopener">Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing</a> (photograph). Library of Congress <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/415" title="March of the Women" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shoulder to Shoulder [The March of the Women]</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/utahwomansuffrag00woma" target="_blank" title="Utah Woman Suffrage Song Book" rel="noreferrer noopener">Utah Woman Suffrage Song Book</a>, Internet Archive<br /><a href="https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/204064/page/1" target="_blank" title="Suffrage Song Book" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage Song Book</a>, Kansas Historical Society <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/18" target="_blank" title="Votes for Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">Votes for Women. Suffrage Rallying Song</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Interracial News Service, vol. 11, no. 1. January 1940
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. <br /><br />The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. <br /><br />Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.'<br />The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." <br /><br />This issue takes a look back at 1939, noting important stories and trends. Topics include lynchings, jobs and organized labor, peonage, housing, civil rights, health, law, spots, arts, religion, literature, World War 2, and science.<br /><br />Selected notices:<br />p. 1 "The Department of Records of Tuskegee Institute lists only three lynchings for the year 1939, a sharp decrease from former years. In eighteen instances law enforcement officers were credited with preventing lynchings, saving twenty-five persons from 'the hands of mobs,'" <br /><br />p. 2 "The right to vote has been sought with new vigor by Negroes in Southern states. The Klan was revived in an effort to terrify Negroes and keep them from registering in Florida and South Carolina...." <br /><br />"The refusal of library service was dramatized in Alexandria, Va., where the public librarian called the police to remove five colored youths who sought service in this public institution. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs for the NYA reported at a meeting of the Southern Education Foundation that only 14 per cent of 509 public libraries in 13 Southern stataes provided service for Negroes."<br /><br />"Health facilities for Negroes are notably lacking. A study in Mississippi made by the American Medical Association showed that there was only one Negro physician for each 14,221 colored persons and only 731 beds in general hospitals for the entire Negro population of more than a million in the state. It is estimated that 75 per cent of the deaths from tuberculosis are Negroes but only 40 beds are available for their care. This represents the worst type of situation." <br /><br />p. 3 "Joe Louis world's heavyweight champion, defended his title four times in 1939." <br /><br />"Marian Anderson, internationally known contralto, soared to new heights when she sang to 75,000 and a nationwide radio audience from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, after exclusion by the D. A. R. from using Constitution Hall." <br /><br />"The threatened growth of anti-Semitism has intensified the study of race relations and many church groups have broadened their consideration of race to include this problem." <br /><br />"The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues issued a statement declaring that experiments showed no characteristic inherent psychological differences to distinguish so-called 'races.'" <br /><br />"From the American Jewish Committee, New York...<br />Stimulated by the meeting between representatives of the Jewish press and Negro organizations held at the end of September, the Jewish press in the United States has undertaken a systemic campaign to improve relations between Negroes and Jews."
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1940 January
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Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 5. October, 1939
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. <br /><br />The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. <br /><br />Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.'<br />The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." <br /><br />This issue begins with the section "Negroes and the War." "The outbreak of war in Europt has brought penetrating comments from Negroes. We quote from editorials in various papers--all published by Negroes." The use of black troops by colonial powers is denounced. <br /><br />Other items include a notice that Booker T. Washington is to be the first black American honored by the U. S. Government with his face on a postage stamp; the appointment of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/obituaries/10bolin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="NYTimes obituary for Jane Bolin">Jane Bolin</a> as the first African American woman judge; and the significant bequest of <a href="https://hamiltonhistorical.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="more about John W. Underhill">John W. Underhill</a> to Mays Landing, N.J. <br />
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1939 October
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Learn more: <br /><em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Southern+Frontier" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Issues of The Southern Frontier">The Southern Frontier</a>,</em> Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracial-segregation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Jim Crow Laws">Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 6, December, 1939
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. <br /><br />The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. <br /><br />Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.'<br />The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." <br /><br />This issue contains numerous stories regarding efforts by African Americans to secure equal treatment in educational opportunity. One item reports the removal of "Little Black Sambo" from San Diego, Ca. kindergartens. <br /><br />There are also notices regarding issues of race and various Christian denominations. Other stories concern relief sent to Native Americans in areas hit by drought, the hiring of M. Leo Bohanon to the position of Director of Social Work in Minneapolis, Mn., and a story about the adoption of black children evacuated from London [in "Operation Pied Piper"] and the surprise they carried.
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1939 December
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Learn more: <br /><em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Southern+Frontier" target="_blank" title="Issues of The Southern Frontier" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Southern Frontier</a>,</em> Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracial-segregation/" target="_blank" title="Jim Crow Laws" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/?p=creators/creator&id=1157" target="_blank" title="archival materials related to M. Leo Bohanon" rel="noreferrer noopener">M. Leo Bohanon</a>, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries <br /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/19/what-world-war-iis-operation-pied-piper-taught-us-about-the-trauma-of-family-separations/?utm_term=.2dad577e144b" target="_blank" title="emotional experience of Operation Pied Piper" rel="noreferrer noopener">What World War II’s ‘Operation Pied Piper’ taught us about the trauma of family separations</a>, The Washington Post <br /><br />Annotate a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/f15879ba07d33a38fe29b6afbdc8fc9c.pdf" target="_blank" title="go to the PDF of this item" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this document</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="What is hypothes.is? How do I use it?" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>
Social Justice, February 13, 1939
Front and back covers of <em>Social Justice, </em>February 13, 1939. <br /><br /><em> Social Justice</em> was a national weekly periodical published by Father Charles Coughlin during the late 1930s and early 1940s<em>. </em>Couglin was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest based near Detroit, Michigan. Coughlin hosted a weekly radio show that reached an estimated 30 million listeners. <br /><br /><em>Social Justice</em> was controversial for publishing anti-Semitic polemics. Eventually, the periodical's mailing permit was revoked and Father Coughlin's radio show was forced off the air. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />Front cover: "Make Your Choices" <br />[Image Description: A man stands stroking his beard as he contemplates two statues, one of Abraham Lincoln and the other of Lenin.] <br /><br />"Today, this nation makes a mental pilgrimage to Springfield, Illinois, there to pay memorial tribute at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. <br />The rough, honest frontiersman lawyer who became a wartime President of the United States, has become a symbol of the Typical American. He is the Poor Man's President, the Great Emancipator, the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a martyr because he opposed dis-union and the international bankers. <br /><br />Across the world, another tomb--that of Lenin in the Red Square of Moscow--is also a center of pilgrimage and the symbol of internationalism. <br /><br />Disciples of Lenin and followers of Lincoln are today in conflice in this country. And no American can be a 'neutral.' <br /><br />Which hero, Lenin or Lincoln? On which side are YOU--Americanism or Communism?"<br /><br />Back cover: "The 'Smut' Vendor"<br />[Image Description: A man stands before a newsstand, smoking a cigarette and holding out a salacious magazine to the viewer. Behind him the shelves are filled with periodicals with titles such as "Smut," "Scandal," "Slime," "Passion," and "Scum."] <br /><br />"Our Man of the Week is a merchandiser of sensation, of propaganda disguised as entertainment, and of outright subversion of morality. <br /><br />The artist has sought to catch the evil spirit of his menace. Readers of <em>Social Justice</em> were introduced last week to the 'Mystical Body of Satan'--on the racks of any modern newstand on may survey his work.<br /><br />Confident that America is a 'Christian' country, we have permitted to thrive and prosper off our indifference, a progressively flagrant affronting of common decency, to say nothing of Christian morals. <br /><br />Encouraged by our tolerance, the Smut Vendors have grown bolder: from off-color joke illustrated by daring cartoons, the magazines have retrograded rapidly into deliberate filth. Feminine nudity and bad taste in 'candid camera reporting' is a commonplace for the nation's children. <br /><br />The remedy is in YOUR hands. Tell your newsstand dealer what magazines offend and why. Tell the advertisers who support these magazines why you think their editorial contents ought not to be supported.<br /><br />A Legion of Decency some years ago cleaned up Hollywood's rotten films; let's clean up the newsstands!"
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1939 February 13
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/coughlin-father-charles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Father Charles Coughlin">Father Charles Coughlin</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="https://www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/newsevents/tag/fr-charles-coughlin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The Archivist's Nook article">“We are all Spiritual Semites” – American Catholics Condemn Kristallnacht</a>, The Archivist's Nook, The Catholic University of America <br /><br />Annotate the item description on this page, or a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/3538208f64a14685f08b75f89818a8c4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="PDF of this material">PDF of this material</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="What is hypothes.is? How do I start?">hypothes.is</a>
Shoulder to Shoulder [The March of the Women]
Music and lyrics taken from "The March of Women" composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton. This copy was posted on the bulletin board of Muriel Smith's ERA office in Virginia. <br /><br /> "The March of the Women" became the official anthem of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in the United Kingdom and, more widely, the anthem of the women's suffrage movement. <br /><br />A <a href="https://youtu.be/LCtGkCg7trY" target="_blank" title="audio of March of the Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">version of this anthem</a> performed by the Rainbow Chorus (UK) in 2009 may be heard on YouTube.
M 304, Box 3, <a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00041.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jean D. Hellmuth papers</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Shoulder to Shoulder. March for ERA [handbill]
Handbill advertising a march in support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The rally was held on Saturday, May 2, 1981 in Raleigh, North Carolina. <br /><br />The deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment was 1982; however, Congress has the power to extend that deadline. The states that have not ratified the amendment as of January 2019 are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. <br /><br />This handbill shows silhouettes of people walking with their arms around each other. Beneath the image is a quote from Susan B. Anthony, "There will never be another season of silence until women have the same rights as men have on this green earth." <br /><br />Text: <br />March for ERA<br />Noon Saturday May 2 Raleigh<br /><br />Carolinians and friends will be marching to the grounds of the State Capitol in Raleigh to celebrate eight years of working "shoulder to shoulder" for E.R.A. ratification and the basic justice which E.R.A. represents. s [sic] <br /><br />Those participating in the "rally in Raleigh" will be making a statement of E.R.A. support in North Carolina and other states. They will be delivering the message that "The dream still lives. The hope will never die." <br /><br />If you wish to participate, call the Virginia Council office for details and directions. (804) 643-1593
M 425, Box 13 <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/567" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Elizabeth Smith collection of Virginia ERA Ratification Council Records</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library
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Don't You Want to Reduce the High Cost of Living? [suffrage tri-fold]
Publication of the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc. 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. <br /> <br />Cover illustration by Rose O'Neill. <br /><br />This pamphlet tells women that, without the vote, all they can do is manage their own households. With the vote, they can bring about governmental protection of the food supply. Women are reminded to be careful housekeepers. "Don't Throw Away a Scrap of Food." Some recipes for careful housekeeping are printed on the final page.<br /><br />At the time this publication was printed, the United States was entering World War I. Rising food prices and limited supplies affected American citizens as food was shipped to soldiers and allies in Europe. Slogans and promotions such as "<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/108" target="_blank" title="See postmark" rel="noreferrer noopener">Food will win the war</a>" and "<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/411" target="_blank" title="WWI Poster about food consumption" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wheatless Wednesdays</a>" urged Americans to eat less and eliminate waste.
M 9, Box 49 <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>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc.
1917 May
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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
Think It Over [suffrage postcard]
Suffrage postcard "Endorsed and Approved by the National American Woman Suffrage Association." <br />No. 107, Published by the Cargille Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan (text from reverse).<br /><br />An seal on the face of the postcard shows a shield with a black spot on which is written "The Ballot is Denied to Woman." Underneath is printed, "The Blot on the Escutcheon."<br /><br />A purple ribbon frames the card. On the ribbon is printed "Think It Over" and "An ounce of persuasion precedes a pound of coercion."<br /><br />The ribbon frames this message: <br /><br />"Woman, if granted the right of Equal Suffrage, would not endeavor to pass new laws for the benefit of WOMAN only. She would work and vote with MAN on all legislation. <br />For references apply to WYOMING, COLORADO, UTAH, and IDAHO."
<span>M 71 </span><a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00081.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Women's Suffrage Printed Ephemera Collection,</a> Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Cargill Co.
"Copyrighted 1910"
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=suffrage" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Items tagged "suffrage"">Suffrage</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project