Fruits of Equal Suffrage I; Two Workings of Bad Law; Judge Lindsey on Suffrage; More Testimony from Colorado.
[Suffrage]. National American Woman Suffrage Association. Fruits of Equal Suffrage, I. N.d.
Single leaf, folded to make four pages; all sides printed; fine.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association. Two Workings of Bad Law. N.d.
Single leaf, folded to make four pages; all sides printed; fine.
Together with:
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Judge Lindsey on Suffrage. N.d.
Single leaf, folded to make four pages; all sides printed; fine.
National American Woman Suffrage Association. More Testimony From Colorado. N.d.
Single leaf, folded to make four pages; all sides printed; fine.
Four scarce Political Equality Leaflets, published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, an organization founded in 1890 through the merger the American and National Woman Suffrage associations and headed by Susan B. Anthony, who was later succeeded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt. A predominantly university-educated and upper-middle class organization, NAWSA was profoundly successful in instructing women in the suffrage politics and other various feminist social concerns, and through their efforts played a major role in the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
The monthly Political Equality leaflets reflect not only NAWSA’s concern for suffrage issues, but more broadly the concern for equal rights for women, the ratification of child labor laws, the care for orphaned children, the indigent, and ailing, and the general improvements of communities, such as:
equal pay for men and women teachers of equal qualification…forbidding the employment of boys under 14 or girls of any age in mines, or of children under 14 in public exhibitions…providing for the care and custody of deserted or orphan children or infirm, indigent or incompetent persons…and securing ordinances placing drinking fountains in the streets, garbage receptacles at the corners, and seats at the transfer stations of the street cars.
Cogently illustrated in Two Workings of a Bad Law, NAWSA was also greatly devoted to ratifying prejudicial custody laws that granted the husbands, who in many instances were unscrupulous, the sole legal guardianship of their children, which often led to the demise of wives and children from emotional and physical abuse.
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