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Representative Carlos Bee questions whether state or federal laws were violated in this instance. Why might he have asked this question?
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Explore the broader history of Black suffrage using the Black Citizenship
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this article by discussing woman suffrage. What is her argument and why does she believe suffrage is particularly important for Black women?
Williams presents a generally positive view of life in Chicago. Why might she want to present this perspective
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western United States. Her ancestors include passengers on the Mayflower and Aaron Burr.
A Worker for Woman Suffrage
The influence of Western democracy, although I came East while I was still a child, has had an effect, perhaps, in shaping my ideas and
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-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago in 1913, which became the largest Black women’s suffrage organization in Illinois. In addition to supporting women’s efforts to obtain the vote, the Alpha Suffrage Club taught women how to be politically active and
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other women who had gone on strike. She had been blacklisted from the industry. Instead, she found paid work as an organizer. She spoke out about women’s suffrage, education, work conditions, and more.
During one strike, Clara was arrested seventeen
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, Jane emerged as a prominent leader in the social reform movement. An ardent supporter of labor unions, she rallied for women’s suffrage. She joined Chicago’s Board of Education in 1905, and was an early member of the National Association for the
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the possible effectiveness of women versus men reformers in certain areas?
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Compare this document with the suffrage broadside “Women in the Home.” How do these two pieces present a case for women
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these outfits with the one depicted in the Rose O’Neill’s suffrage poster. How is the uncorseted outfit in that resource different from the three recreation outfits?
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discrimination by studying Madam Walker’s life story alongside Fannie Barrier Williams’s article in the Chicago Defender; Adella Hunt Logan’s case for suffrage in The Crisis; Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson’s account of Black war work; the photograph of the 1917
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