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Date: September 25, 1867
The numerous authors of this pamphlet (Republicans) support the constitutional amendments to approve voting rights for blacks, for women, and to restrict voting rights to “loyal persons.” They offer arguments…
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Date: 1904
Senator John James Ingalls was serving in the U. S. Senate when he wrote this article about the Sixteenth Amendment that would give voting rights to women. He offers a…
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Date: 1887
T. B. Peacock, author of this pamphlet, offers several reasons why women should not vote. He argues that men have greater reasoning powers while women have greater intuitive powers. He…
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Date: March 9, 1910
Frank Foxcroft of Boston, Massachusetts, presented these remarks against woman’s suffrage before the Judiciary Committee of the New York Legislature. He argues that most women do not want the ballot…
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Date: 1911
Rev. Stephen Estey supported woman’s suffrage, and he wrote these remarks at the time when Kansans were considering a constitutional amendment to give full voting rights to Kansas women. His…
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Date: 1921
Lilla Day Monroe authored this pamphlet on behalf of the Topeka Good Government Club’s Committee on Legislation. It includes excerpts concerning the property rights of married women and the rights…
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Date: 1887
Franklin Adams, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, wrote this pamphlet analyzing the votes cast during the April 1887 local election. This was the first election in which women…
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Date: March 24, 1859
A certificate of authenticity for the sale of a horse signed by John Brown. Brown claims the horse was taken near Fort Scott, Kansas Territory, during the Kansas/Missouri border conflicts…
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Date: May, 1894
Congressman John Davis of Kansas testified for political rights for women before the United States Special Committee on Woman Suffrage on February 21, 1894. He was introduced by Mrs. Annie…
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Date: October 15, 1851
Clarina Nichols gave this speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention held in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 15, 1851. Nichols states that the woman’s sphere was all of humanity rather than…
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Date: 1909
This song book contains 28 songs (all set to common tunes) that express the women’s rights perspective. Titles include “Dare You Do It?” and the “Great Army,” both to the…
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Date: May 9-10, 1867
This meeting of the American Equal Rights Association was held at the Church of the Puritans, New York City on May 9-10, 1867. The organization supported voting rights and citizenship…
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Date: Unknown date
This pamphlet contains the words to campaign songs sung by the Quenemo Glee Club in “the Peoples Party Campaign, 4th Congressional District State of Kas.” The tunes for the songs…
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Date: 1894
The concept of a Labor Exchange was developed by G. B. De Bernadi of Independence, Missouri. This booklet was compiled by E. Z. Ernst who was a general organizer for…
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Date: 1891
Mrs. Emery, the author of this pamphlet, lived in Lansing, Michigan. The content of the pamphlet, as the title implies, looks at the ways the author believes that the system…
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Date: Between 1890 and 1892
This poem deals with activities in the Kansas Statehouse from a Farmer’s Alliance (or Populist) perspective. A number of Kansas politicians are named in the poem which implies that the…
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Date: 1893
Colfax Harman wrote this poem that reflects on the usual targets of Populist concerns about the economy. It was published in Valley Falls, Kansas, by George Harman.
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Date: 1890s
C. Wood Davis wrote this pamphlet as a response to testimony before the Committee on Agriculture of the U.S. House of Representatives by W. C. Brown, manager of the Isaac…
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Date: 1891
The contents of this pamphlet is a speech S. N. Wood gave at Herington, Kansas, April 29, 1891. Wood died in June of 1891 just as this pamphlet was being…
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Date: 1886
W. D. Vincent gave this speech at the Clay Debating Club in Clay Center, Kansas, on February 19, 1886. Vincent proposes to make wealth more equitable by letting the government…
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Date: 1890
Mr. Tilton, Oxford, Kansas, discusses the reasons for the plight of the laboring class and offers principles and suggestions on page 16 and 17 that he hopes will be incorporated…
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Date: Unknown
This pamphlet deals with ideas for a stable dollar, an independent U. S. treasury, and with eliminating the national debt. It was written by W. A. Tilton of Oxford, Kansas.…
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Date: August 1888
Albert F. Thayer of Maple Hill, Kansas, wrote this pamphlet addressed to the farmers of Wabaunsee County to explain why he was going to vote a Democratic ticket in the…
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Date: April 6, 1888
This pamphlet written by Porter Sherman is in response to a petition from a number of people in Wyandotte County urging him to run for the U. S. Congress. The…
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Date: 1891
S. M. Scott was an “assistant lecturer for the Kansas Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union.” The pamphlet discusses the Alliance sub-treasury plan in detail, including objections to it. The volume…
