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Title: The Equal Rights Amendment and the Persistence of Kansas Conservatism
Description: Article tracing Kansans' responses to national gender equality reform movements. Specifically, the article focuses on the Kansas women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century, as well as the opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) of the 1970s. The author argues the founders of Kansas "craved moral differentiation" from the eastern states, a tradition which continued into the late 20th century.
Date: 2014
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Imagining the Free State: A 150-Year History of a Contested Image
Description: Article about the image of Kansas as a free state and raising the questions of possible sub-regional differences and how this narrative affected the states attempt at justice, including prohibition, suffrage, and civil rights. The author suggests "the Free State has been shaped more by selective memory than history."
Date: 2011
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Diamond Jubilee of Nineteenth Amendment
Description: Article about the 75th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, with information about the suffragette movement in Kansas City, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Chandler Coates, and Mathilde Dallmeyer Shelden.
Date: 1995
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jackson County to the Fore
Description: Report on the activities of the Jackson County Suffrage Campaign Committee and similar suffragette organizations.
Date: 1918-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: History of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Missouri
Description: Extensive article about the women's suffrage, or right to vote, movement in Missouri, from 1910 to 1919 and its enactment into national law by Constitutional amendment, with photos.
Date: 1920-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Organization
Description: Report on the activities of the Jackson County Suffrage Campaign Committee, organized to promote the right of women to vote, located at 710 Walnut Street.
Date: 1918-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

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