Gateway to Needham Election 2021
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Read MoreIda B. Wells (1862-1931) was born in Mississippi to a family of Reconstruction activists. She befriended Susan B. Anthony and founded the Alpha Suffrage Club to promote Black woman’s suffrage. Upon visiting Boston, she joined...
Read MoreNeedham Suffrage The debate over woman’s right to vote reached into Needham as well, with groups in in town aligned on both sides of the issue. On June 12, 1873, the Needham Woman Suffrage Club was formed, meeting at the home of...
Read MoreDelta Sigma Theta Sorority Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 at Howard University. They joined the March 3, 1913 parade in Washington. Their 22 members along with other African American groups joined the...
Read MoreSusan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) worked together throughout their lives. Anthony was born in Massachusetts (Adams), and as a young couple Stanton and her husband lived in Massachusetts, but she...
Read MoreCarrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was the leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900-1904 and then in 1915-1920. She founded National League of Women Voters in 1920 just prior to the passage of the 19th...
Read MoreAlice Paul (1885-1977) and Lucy Burns (1879-1966) were influential leaders of the late period of the national suffrage movement, based in Washington, DC. They organized the1913 Washington March and Silent Sentinel White House...
Read MoreWorcester Suffrage Convention, October 23-24, 1850 Two years after Seneca Falls Convention, the first national convention for woman’s rights was held in Worcester. Over 1,000 delegates from 11 states attended. The convention was...
Read MoreBoston Suffrage Parades/November 2 Referendum On October 16, 1915 supporters of woman’s suffrage (15,000 marchers and 30 bands) in Massachusetts held a parade in support of the November 2 ballot measure that would have amended...
Read MoreBoston Protest / Charles St. Jail On February 24, 1919, 22 suffragists were arrested in front of the State House for protesting Woodrow Wilson’s visit to Boston. Sixteen of the suffragists arrested for violating a city...
Read MoreMassachusetts Ratifies the 19th Amendment On June 4, 1919 the US Congress approved the 19th Amendment and forwarded it to the states for ratification. Approval by three-fourths of the state legislatures (36) were needed to...
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