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The Chicago Women's Club also made the case that further appointments should be women after Howe left and asked them to appoint and maintain Harriet C. B. Alexander to the open position. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] The club continued to work towards improvements for female inmates at the hospital, [ 49 ] conducted visits and monitored the status of ...
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]
La Puente Valley Woman's Club Women's Club of Coconut Grove, founded in 1891 Andover Chapter House, in 2011 General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters. Woman's clubs or women's clubs are examples of the woman's club movement. Many local clubs and national or regional federations were influential in history.
June: The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) holds their biennial convention in Chicago where they formally support women's suffrage. [30] June 13: The Illinois Supreme Court upholds women's right to vote in School officer elections in Plummer v. Yost. [31] August 15: Self-Denial Day to raise money for suffrage efforts. [32] 1915
The Fortnightly of Chicago is a woman's club founded in Chicago in 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett. [1] It is the oldest women's association in Chicago. [2] Kate Newell Doggett served as the first president from 1873 through 1879.
She ran the Ministries of Labor and Health and fought for women's suffrage. Perón founded Argentina’s first large-scale female political party, the Women's Peronist Party. 22.
How Women Can Best Serve the State: An Address Before the State Federation of Women's Clubs, Troy, N. Y., October 30, 1907 (1907) The Antisuffrage Movement (1908) Woman's Rights in America: A Retrospect of Sixty Years, 1848-1908 (1908) Why the Home Makers Do Not Want to Vote (1909) American Women and the Ballot (1909) The Campaign of Noise (1909)
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. [41] [42]