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Beginning with the support of the Mendham [NJ] Free Public Library, the Project’s growing research, production and publication activities resulted in the incorporation of the Women’s Project of New Jersey as an independent non-profit in July 1985 with a volunteer Board of Trustees that included historians, librarians, writers, a lawyer, an accountant, a publicist, an educational equity ...
Jennie Carolyn (Sullivan) Van Ness (August 27, 1879 – September 15, 1967) was a leader in the women's suffrage and Prohibition movements in New Jersey. She was one of the first two women to serve in the New Jersey Legislature , elected in 1920 as a Republican .
W. E. B. Du Bois publicly supported the 1915 New Jersey campaign, writing in The Crisis, "To say the woman is weaker than man is sheer rot: It is the same sort of thing we hear about the 'darker races' and 'lower classes.'" [118] Mary Church Terrell campaigned in New Jersey in October, urging black men to vote for the women's suffrage amendment ...
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Sexton gives speeches at women's clubs and the New Jersey WCTU. [32] 1906. Suffragists hold a memorial suffrage meeting in Orange, honoring the death of Susan B. Anthony. [33] 1908. Mina Van Winkle starts the Equality League for Self Supporting Women of New Jersey. [34] [35] [36] 1909. Emma O. Gantz and Martha Klatschken form the Progressive ...
Historical marker of the Dr. Lewis Condict House, outside the current Women's Club headquarters. In 1937, the Club purchased the Dr. Lewis Condict House, [1] a "five-bay, Federal-style clapboard house" constructed in 1797. [12] The house was declared a New Jersey Historic Site in 1971, and in 1973 it was placed on the National Register of ...
The 42nd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival returns to Rutgers University and remotely on weekends from Jan. 26 to Feb. 18. Movies made by women 'given the platform that they need' at upcoming NJ ...
Women in New Jersey politics (3 C, 20 P) Women's prisons in New Jersey (1 P) R. The Real Housewives of New Jersey (17 P) S. Sculptures of women in New Jersey (8 P)