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  • Collection: Suffrage

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Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House. Miss Julia Hurlbut of Morristown, New Jersey, leading the sixteen members of the National Womans Party who participated in the picketing demonstration in front of the…

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This illustration entitled, "Catching the Speaker's Eye In The Future News Note: Colorado Suffragettes Are Planning a Campaign to Elect a Woman to Congress Next Year", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on…

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As a concerned citizen, George Neu wrote to the House Judiciary Committee to express his belief that the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional.

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jackson_letter.pdf
Mrs. E. Jackson wrote to the House Judiciary Committee the day after Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. She was reacting to scenes of police brutality during a voting rights march that many Americans witnessed on television news programs. The…

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