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Provincial Freeman [Mary Ann Shadd Cary] Revolution [Anthony & Stanton] National Citizen & Ballot Box [Matilda Joslyn Gage] Free Speech [IdaBWells] Woman’s Journal [Lucy Stone/Julia Ward Howe] Woman’s Era [Josephine & Florida Ruffin]…

With the New York referendum looming, The Crisis published its second special issue on women’s suffrage in August 1915. The cover was an arresting composite of Abraham Lincoln & Sojourner Truth. 🧵 26 essays by men and women took up almost…

The position of the Times on the question of woman suffrage has long been known. It is totally opposed to the extension of suffrage on the grounds that it would not benefit the women in any single way and would tend to disorganize society. --…

I am decidedly opposed to male suffrage and the following are some of my reasons. First: A man, for possibly an hour each year in order to cast his ballot, would be compelled to neglect his family and his business. Secondly: Politics corrupt men;…