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Title: Missouri Suffrage
Description: File has information on suffrage, or the right to vote, before 1920 (not including women) and after 1920 (including women), disenfrachisement of Confederate sympathizers, black suffrage, and general qualifications and registration of voters.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: The Forgotten Feminist: Clarinda Irene Howard Nichols Carried the Cause of Women's Rights to Kansas
Description: Article profiling Clarinda Irene Howard Nichols, a pioneer woman suffragette and desegregationist, born in 1810, an associate of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Date: 1999-11-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Suffragette Caricature
Description: Caricature postcard of a suffragette kissing a man to secure his vote.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: American Woman and Her Political Peers, 1893
Description: Pro-suffrage postcard showing women's suffragist and temperance reformer, Frances E. Willard, alongside her political peers--outcasts of society ineligible to vote.
Date: 1911~
Object Type: Postcard

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: In Memoriam: Sarah Walter Chandler Coates
Description: Extract of a letter from Susan B. Anthony, or Susan Anthony, the pioneer feminist and suffragette, about her visits with Sarah W. C. Coates, or Sarah Coates in Kansas City in 1870 and 1896, dealing with the right to vote for women.
Date: 1898~
Object Type: Book

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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