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VIDEO: JANE RHODES on THE NEW NEGRO IN THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE

From her chapter in FRONT PAGES FRONT LINES: MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Essay, Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

      In Chapter 5 of Front Pages Front Lines, Prof. Jane Rhodes, the head of African-American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, examines the positions on suffrage and […] Read More

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Video Interviews with the Authors of Front Pages, Front Lines

Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage - U of Illinois Press 2020

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Essay, Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Resarch, Video, Web-based

Links to all video shorts for the chapters of Front Pages Front Lines are below. Read more about the book here.   “Lumsden offers a comprehensive historiography of suffrage and […] Read More

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Thesis: Drawing on Women: Representations of Women and Suffrage Imagery in The Masses, 1913-1917

Marie Clifford. "Drawing on Women: Representations of Women and Suffrage Imagery in The Masses, 1913-1917." MA Thesis. University of Alberta, 1991.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Illustration, Magazines

This masters thesis examines depictions of female suffragists and other women in the now-defunct socialist magazine The Masses. The following excerpt comes from the paper’s abstract: This study examines the […] Read More

Primary Source

Anti-Suffrage Book: Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism; The Terrible Triplets, Connected by the Same Umbilical Cord, and Fed From the Same Nursing Bottle

B.V. Hubbard. Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism: The Terrible Triplets, Connected by the Same Umbilical Cord, and Fed From the Same Nursing Bottle. Chicago: American Publishing Company, 1915.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction, Commentary, Essay, Posters

Part of the NAWSA Collection of the Library of Congress, this ponderously titled book comprises about 300 pages of anti-suffrage invective. As the Library of Congress’ description puts it, “[t]his […] Read More

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Anti-suffrage Poster: The Red Behind the Yellow, 1915

New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1915, Max Eastman Collection II, Lilly LIbrary, University of Indiana

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Posters

This poster urges readers to vote against a proposed—and ultimately unsuccessful—1915 amendment to the New York State Constitution, which would have granted women the right to vote. It equates support […] Read More

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Pamphlet Distributed by the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

Jewish Women's Archive

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Leaflets, Pamphlets

This pamphlet from the Jewish Women’s Archive lists arguments by the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, or NAOWS. One of the most commonly cited arguments was simply that women did not […] Read More