Women's suffrage, Mothers, Families, Churches, Organizations, Johnson, Adah Frances, Young Women's Christian Association, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1980-1990
Women's suffrage, Women, Simpson College, United States Iowa Indianola, 1910-1920
Description
Jennifer Riggs attended Simpson College and graduated in 1899. After her marriage to George Cosson, she became a teacher and a suffragist, and was in demand as a speaker.
Women's suffrage, Organizations, Meetings, Women, Adams, Mary Newbury, Dubuque Ladies' Literary Association, United States Iowa, United States Georgia Atlanta, United States Iowa Dubuque, 1890-1900
Women's suffrage, Women, Organizations, Spouses, Alexander, Audra, Iowa Association of Colored Women, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1970-1980
Women's suffrage, Women, Activists, Branner, Virginia M., Dewey, Victoria J., United States Iowa, 1920-1930, Dewey, Victoria Josephine, Branner, Virginia M.
Women's suffrage, Voting, Women, Political participation, Organizations, League of Women Voters (U.S.), United States Iowa, United States Iowa Iowa City, 1920-1930
Women's suffrage, Organizations, History, Meetings, Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, Political Equality Club (Charles City, Iowa), United States Iowa Charles City, 1890-1900
Women's suffrage, Monuments & memorials, Organizations, Meetings, Historians, Sculpture, Pacifism, Hunter, Mary Ankeny, Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission, National American Woman Suffrage Association, United States Iowa Des Moines, United States New York New Rochelle, 1930-1940, 1940-1950
Description
Mary Hunter was president of the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission; Carrie Chapman Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and honorary president of the Commission.
Women's suffrage, Monuments & memorials, Organizations, Meetings, Churches, Historians, Sculpture, Pacifism, Hunter, Mary Ankeny, Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941, Walker, Nellie V., Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission, National American Woman Suffrage Association, United States Iowa Des Moines, United States New York New Rochelle, 1930-1940
Description
Mary Hunter was president of the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission; Carrie Chapman Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and honorary president of the Commission.
Women's suffrage, Parties, Monuments & memorials, Churches, Music, Singers, Women, Organizations, Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Political Equality Club (Des Moines, Iowa), United States Iowa Des Moines, 1900-1910
Women's suffrage, Organizations, Women, Political participation, Meetings, Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission, Des Moines Political Equality Club, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1910-1920
Women's suffrage, Mothers, Families, Churches, Organizations, Morris, Edna, League of Women Voters (U.S.), Order of the Eastern Star, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1980-1990
Women's suffrage, Voting, Women, Organizations, Political participation, Carter, Lucille Ketchum, United States Iowa Iowa City, 1990-2000
Description
Carter was a 1936 graduate of the School of Nursing at the State University of Iowa who was active in Democratic politics and whose correspondence includes round robin letters.
Women's suffrage, Legislators, Legislation, Politics & government, Banks, Haugen, Gilbert Nelson, 1859-1933, United States Iowa, United States Iowa Northwood, United States Iowa Charles City, United States Iowa Forest City, 1890-1900
Description
Haugen was a seventeen-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district; A.B.F. Hildreth was a Charles City newspaper editor who campaigned successfully to open the state university to women.
Women's suffrage, Mothers, Families, Churches, Organizations, Trotter, Goletha L., Order of the Eastern Star, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1980-1990
Women's suffrage, History, Women, Voting, Organizations, Political participation, Politics & government, Universities & colleges, Pacifism, Monuments & memorials, Wingate, Blanche, Cecil of Chelwood, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount, 1864-1958, Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955, Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, League of Women Voters (U.S.), Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, United States Iowa, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1910-1920, 1920-1930, 1930-1940
Women's suffrage, Women, Organizations, Meetings, Political participation, Politics & government, Coggeshall, Mary J., Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, Political Equality Club (Des Moines, Iowa), United States Iowa Boone, United States Iowa Cedar Rapids, United States Iowa Des Moines, United States Iowa Corydon, 1900-1910, 1910-1920
Women's suffrage, Women, Men, Mothers, Children, Voting, Horack, H. Claude (Hugo Claude), b. 1877, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, Iowa Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage, United States Iowa, United States Iowa Burlington, United States Iowa Dubuque, 1910-1920
Women's suffrage, Women, Banquets, Theatrical productions, History, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, United States Iowa, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1900-1910, 1910-1920
Women's suffrage, Priests, Women, Schools, Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, United States Iowa, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1910-1920
Women's suffrage, Women, Organizations, Politics & government, Political participation, Cory, Mary C., Cummins, Albert Baird, 1850-1926, Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, United States Iowa, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1890-1900, 1900-1910
Description
Nondenominational and nonpartisan organization bringing Iowa women's clubs together.
Women's suffrage, Organizations, Clubs, Clubwomen, Meetings, Civic leaders, Political participation, Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, United States Iowa, 1910-1920
Women's suffrage, Organizations, Women, Temperance, Children, Political participation, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Iowa White Ribboners, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1890-1900
Description
The white ribbon became the symbol of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Women's suffrage, Women, Voting, Organizations, Political participation, Coggeshall, Mary J., Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, United States Iowa, United States Iowa Mount Pleasant, United States Iowa Des Moines, United States Iowa Chariton, 1890-1900
Women's suffrage, Women, Taxes, Business & finance, Men, Organizations, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, United States Iowa Dubuque, United States Iowa Des Moines, 1910-1920