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Evanston Women and Suffrage

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Featuring the women of Evanston who worked hard to see that national women's suffrage became a reality.

Contributors: Evanston Women's History Project

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Evanston Organizations and Suffrage

Pamphlet, CM, 1913, EHC 214.1.9.1.pdf

Featuring the Evanston organizations that made a difference in moving the 19th Amendment along. Groups include the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,…

Contributors: Evanston Women's History Project

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Voting Before the 19th Amendment

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Information about suffrage victories that predated the 19th amendment, specifically School Board suffrage in 1891-2 and extended state suffrage in…

Contributors: Evanston Women's History Project

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African-American Women and Suffrage

Wells letter to McCulloch_March 1913.pdf

Many Black American women struggled to make it to the forefront of politics so women's clubs were intended to form communities in Evanston to support…

Contributors: Evanston Women's History Project

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