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IESA holds their annual convention in Chicago and Ella S. Stewart is elected the president. [23] 1906. Stewart is re-elected as IESA president. [10] 1907. The IESA convention is held at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. [24] 1908. June: IESA works with NAWSA to lobby delegates to the Republican National Convention in Chicago. [24] 1909
The first women to vote in Illinois were 15 women in Lombard, Illinois, led by Ellen A. Martin, who found a loophole in the law in 1891. Women were eventually allowed to vote for school offices in the 1890s. Women in Chicago and throughout Illinois fought for the right to vote based on the idea of no taxation without representation. They also ...
Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. [11] Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs. [6] Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), formed in 1869, later renamed Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA). [12] [13] [14] Men's Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1909. [15] Naperville Equal Suffrage Club, created in 1888. [16] National Woman's ...
Rönninge Show, performing as reigning champions in 2014 LoveNotes quartet performing as reigning "queens of harmony" in 2014. The Sweet Adelines International Competitions are the annual global championships for women's barbershop harmony a cappella singing – in quartets and choruses – for members of Sweet Adelines International (SAI) and have been held annually between September and ...
The Club aimed to give a voice to African American women who had been excluded from national suffrage organizations such as the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [4] Its stated purpose was to inform black women of their civic responsibility and to organize them to help elect candidates who would best serve the interests of ...
Keller’s goal is to help women and girls pursue careers in the fields of S.T.E.A.M., or science, technology, arts and math, and to overcome biases against women that often create obstacles in ...
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Before she retired, she established the League of Women Voters on February 14, 1920, at the NAWSA national convention in Chicago to encourage women to use their right to vote. In 1923, with Nettie Rogers Shuler, she published Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. [48]