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Illinois Equal Suffrage Association pamphlet, 1903. Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913. [1] Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910. [2] Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894. [3] [4] Chicago Teachers' Federation. [5] Chicago Woman's Club. [6] Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society. [7]
The first women's suffrage group in Illinois was created by Susan B. Anthony's cousin, Susan Hoxie Richardson. [1] Richardson created the Earlville Suffrage Association in 1855. [2] Richardson had heard the women's suffrage speech given by lawyer and editor of the Earlville Transcript, Alonzo Jackson Grover, earlier that year. [3]
At least four people were killed in the attacks, and at least 24 were injured (including two suffragettes). The campaign was halted at the outbreak of war in August 1914 without having brought about votes for women, as suffragettes pledged to pause the campaign to aid the war effort.
Suffragettes were arrested and imprisoned as they fought for voting rights. Photos from 1912 to 1920 chronicle their efforts and eventual victory. 20 vintage photos of suffragettes that will make ...
The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) holds their annual convention in Chicago. [12] 1885. Susan B. Anthony addresses the Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society. [13] 1887. Mary Holmes becomes president of IWSA. [10] 1888. The Decatur Women's Suffrage Club is formed by Sophie Gibb and 100 other women in Decatur, Illinois. [9]
The militant tactics of British and American suffragettes helped secure voting rights for women (in Britain, those rights were secured via Parliamentary acts passed in 1918 and 1928, and in the U ...
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [ 40 ] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement.
Naomi volunteered with the International Organization of Grand Templars in Chicago and later the Women's Christian Temperance Union to promote temperance. [3] Soon, she began speaking about women's suffrage, beginning at the first Woman's Rights Convention in 1869. [1] She made a lecturing tour in 1869 through southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.