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by Brian Gray Last Updated Jan 28, 2022 134 views this year

If you visit the Kelvin Smith Library, make sure to stop by the 2nd floor to view our exhibit, 19th at 100!

The exhibit situates the campaign for suffrage in the longer narrative of the ongoing struggle for women’s rights, giving special attention to Northeast Ohio and our university. Showing the complexities and limits, but also the creativity and possibilities, of the movement, the exhibition revisits the 19th Amendment and its continuing legacies.

The 19th at 100 exhibit was curated by CWRU History professor and students:
Lauren Dostal, Isabel Fedewa, Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Kellyn Toombs,
Abbey Wells, and Jewel Yoder Kuhns.

Local Women's Suffrage History & Resources

19th at 100: Commemorating the Suffrage Struggle and Its Legacies in Northeast Ohio
Website created by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Lauren Dostal, Isabel Fedewa, Jewel Yoder Kuhns, Kellyn Toombs, and Abbey Wells
Harriet Taylor Upton
"Harriet Taylor Upton (December 17, 1853 – November 2, 1945) was an American political activist and author. Upton is best remembered as a leading Ohio state and national figure in the struggle for women's right to vote and as the first woman to become a vice-chairman of the Republican National Committee." (From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Taylor_Upton)
Originally published in Western Reserve Studies Symposium (11th:1996 : Cleveland, Ohio).
Western Reserve University Equal Suffrage League
Article on the WRU Equal Suffrage League from Volume IX, Number 13 (December 19, 1911) of the Western Reserve University student newspaper, the Reserve Weekly.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Florence Ellinwood Allen "became one of Cleveland’s leading suffragists, a vigorous stump speaker and debater, and a tireless organizer and fundraiser, traveling all over Ohio during the 1912 and 1914 efforts to amend the state’s constitution to enfranchise women. In 1916, she successfully defended before the Ohio Supreme Court the provision of the charter of the city of East Cleveland that gave its women residents the right to vote in municipal elections." Article from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.
American Women's Suffrage Association Convention of 1869
"The American Women's Suffrage Assn. convention in Cleveland, on November 24-25, 1869, signaled a schism in the national women's suffrage movement that lasted over twenty years. This national organization of state women's suffrage associations formed as a less radical alternative to the National Woman Suffrage Association, founded earlier the same year by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony." From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.
Ohio Woman Suffrage Association
"The Ohio Woman Suffrage Association was an early woman's suffragist group in Ohio." From Ohio History Central.

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