Traci+Langworthy

Traci Langworthy

tracilangworthy@mail.sunyjcc.edu


 * “Making Woman’s History: Chautauqua County and the Suffrage Movement”**

As the end of the 19th century drew near, communities across Western New York participated in a vibrant grass-roots campaign to win women the right to vote in New York State. In the early 1890’s, the Chautauqua County Political Equality Club claimed the largest membership of any such club in the nation. Noted suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt regularly inspired audiences at Lily Dale, Chautauqua Institution, and numerous other venues across the region. By the end of the century, however, traditional letter-writing and petition campaigns proved increasingly ineffective. Victory was left for the next generation and the new, “militant” tactics they dared to pursue. This evening’s presentation will highlight local women’s contributions to the movement throughout this era, from the 1880’s until the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, as well as share some “teachable” primary sources. Local documents from Chautauqua County will be highlighted alongside the wealth of material available on women’s suffrage through the Library of Congress.

Suffrage Bibliographic Organizer



**I. Some Background: The American Women's Suffrage Movement**

Suffrage Movement Timeline: @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html

Women’s Suffrage "Primary Source Set" for teachers, featuring a variety of primary source types spanning several years: @http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/womens-suffrage

Debaters Handbook Series from 1912, featuring pro- and anti-suffrage articles, a debating outline, and a helpful bibliography to find more primary sources on the suffrage debate: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/nawbib:@OR(@field(AUTHOR+@od1(Phelps,+Edith+May,+1881-+comp+))+@field(OTHER+@od1(Phelps,+Edith+May,+1881-+comp+)))

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**II. Local Women Mobilize: Political Equality Clubs & the State Campaign, c. 1885-1910**
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbook from Geneva, N.Y. Political Equality Club, 1897-1904: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbcmil&fileName=scrpbk1/rbcmilscrpbk1.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?rbcmillerbib:1:./temp/~ammem_I6jO::


 * III. New Blood and ‘Militant’ Tactics, c. 1910-1920**

Photograph of Edith Ainge, suffrage prisoner from Jamestown, N.Y.: @http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.147004

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl path=/service/mss/mnwp/147&topImages=147004r.jpg&topLinks=147004v.jpg,147004u.tif&displayProfile=0&dir=ammem&itemLink=r?ammem/mnwp:@field(DOCID+@lit(mnwp000072))


 * Women of Protest:** @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/ The National Woman’s Party, representing the militant wing of the suffrage movement, utilized open public demonstrations to gain popular attention for the right of women to vote in the United States. Their picketing, pageants, parades, and demonstrations—as well as their subsequent arrests, imprisonment, and hunger strikes—were successful in spurring public discussion and winning publicity for the suffrage cause. //Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party// presents both images that depict this broad range of tactics as well as individual portraits of organization leaders and members. The photographs span from about 1875 to 1938 but largely date between 1913 and 1922.
 * Votes for Women NAWSA**: @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by [|Carrie Chapman Catt], longtime president of the [|National American Woman Suffrage Association], in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore.


 * Votes for Women Pictures**: @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes [|portraits] of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage [|parades], [|picketing] suffragists, and an [|anti-suffrage] display, as well as [|cartoons] commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out. This online illustrated reference aid is part of the [|"By Popular Demand"] series. It is a pictorial partner for the text documents in "'Votes for Women:' Selections from the [|National American Woman Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920]."
 * African-American Pamphlets**: @http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

The [|**Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection**] presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
 * Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks**: @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/millerscrapbooks/

Between 1897 and 1911 Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, filled seven large scrapbooks with ephemera and memorabilia related to their work with women's suffrage. The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. These scrapbooks document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club, which the Millers founded in 1897, as well as efforts at the state, national, and international levels to win the vote for women. They offer a unique look at the political and social atmosphere of the time as well as chronicle the efforts of two women who were major participants in the suffrage movement.


 * Letters and Articles **