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Suffragists Oral History Project |
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In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History
Project, under the auspices of the Bancroft Library's
Regional Oral History Office, collected interviews
with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's
suffrage movement. Tape-recorded and transcribed
oral histories preserved the memories of these
remarkable women, documenting formative experiences,
activities to win the right to vote for women,
and careers as leaders of the movements for welfare
and labor reform, world peace, and the passage
of the Equal Rights Amendment.
A biography of Alice Paul based upon Amelia Fry's oral history interviews with Alice Paul, her friends, and relatives is now available: Alice Paul: Claiming Power by J.D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry.
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| Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented here with full-length oral histories.
These include Alice Paul, founder and leader of the more militant organization called the National Woman's Party, which made suffrage
a mainstream issue through public demonstrations and protests; Sara Bard Field, a mother, lover, poet, and social and political reformer, whose
interactions with California artists and political activists gave her a national profile; Burnita Shelton Matthews, a District of
Columbia federal judge; Helen Valeska Bary, who campaigned for woman's suffrage in Los Angeles and later had a prominent career in
labor and social security administration; Jeannette Rankin, a Montana suffrage campaigner and the first woman elected to Congress,
who recalls Carrie Chapman Catt, the League of Women Voters, and her lifelong work for world peace; Mabel Vernon, who is credited
for the advance work of gathering the throngs of people to greet Alice Paul and her entourage on their famous coast-to-coast
suffrage campaign in the fall of 1915; and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, who gives an account of working with Alice Paul in organizing
the Woman's Party. |
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Helen Valeska Bary (1888-1973)
Labor Administration and Social Security:
A Woman's life. 1974, 300 pp.
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Alice Paul (1885-1977)
Conversations with Alice Paul:
An Autobiography. 1975, 674 pp. |
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Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973)
Activist for World Peace, Women's
Rights, and Democratic Government.
1974, 293 pp.
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Mabel Vernon (1883-1975)
The Suffrage Campaign, Peace
and International Relations.
1975, 318 pp. |
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| The oral histories of five rank-and-file
suffragists are collected in The Suffragists:
From Tea-Parties to Prison, conducted by Sherna
Gluck, director of the Feminist History Research
Project. These women spoke out for suffrage from
horse-drawn wagons and streetcorner soapboxes. Some
discussed politics in genteel tea parties, others
were arrested for picketing for suffrage in front
of the White House. These five interviews represent
the diversity of ordinary women who made woman's
suffrage a reality, documenting their motivations
and ethical convictions, their family, social, and
regional backgrounds, and their part in the campaign
for women's right to vote. |
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Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison.
1975, 359 pp.
Interviews with: Sylvie Thygeson,"In the Parlor" Jessie
Haver Butler, "On the Platform" Miriam Allen deFord, "In
the Streets" Laura Ellsworth Seiler, "On the Soapbox" Ernestine
Kettler, "Behind Bars" |
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