Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Women's suffrage chicago

  • Considering that one century ago, Chicago was home to one of the nations most robust local womens suffrage movements, one has to wonder what pioneers like Jane Addams, Ida B.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • In 1911 women voted in some states--but not in Illinois. On this date 101 years ago, a group of female activists from Chicago chartered a train and traveled to Springfield to lobby for voting rights. At 9 a.m.
  • (Chicago Public Radio)
  • As Peter Quinn notes, within a generation they went from being the most rural people in Western Europe to being the most urban people in the U.S.
  • (Daily Beast)
  • In 1896 womens suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony Just ask Tania Castillo, a 19-year-old who works as a mechanic at the West Town Bikes, a shop in inner-city Chicago.
  • (Women's eNews)
  • As they landed in American cities, Chicago and New York among them interracial labor movement. Irish American women played important roles in labor and suffrage movements, bridging working-class immigrants and middle-class whites.
  • (EurekAlert)
  • At a seminar in Chicago in the late 1980s shortly before local elections And populations in tune with the rising progressive movement of that time.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • The treatment of the Girl Scouts is an overt example of the current Republican war on women. This party is so anti-female civil rights, and universal suffrage.
  • (Examiner)

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