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Transcript for Indiana Women’s Suffrage: The New Day Comes Slowly Jump to Show Notes Crouch: The new day comes slowly, it is true, but none can fail to see that it approaches . . . the women who are asking for political liberty want it chiefly because it will enable them to get certain things . … Continue reading “THH Episode 35: Indiana Women’s Suffrage: The New Day Comes Slowly”
“Five prominent suffragists wooed Nora, stormed Carmel, showed Westfield the sun of political equality rising in the East, and splintered their verbal swords, maces, spears and daggers against two club closing days and a bridge party in Noblesville.” The June 6, 1912, edition of the Indianapolis Star vividly described what was probably the first women’s … Continue reading “Taking It to the Streets: Hoosier Women’s Suffrage Automobile Tour”
One-hundred years ago, American women won their hard-fought battle for the ballot with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Hoosier women from diverse socioeconomic, racial, religious, and geographical backgrounds were integral to this suffrage movement. While COVID-19 has presented challenges in commemorating the centennial of women’s suffrage, we are determined that Indiana’s reformers get the … Continue reading “A Guide: Commemorating Hoosier Suffragists via the National Women’s Suffrage Marker Grant Program”
By the start of the twentieth century, Hoosier suffragists were experienced political actors. They had spent decades exerting pressure on public officials to end discriminatory practices against women and lobbying for the vote. They delivered speeches and petitions to the Indiana General Assembly and the United States Congress. They marched, organized, lobbied, and strategized. But … Continue reading ““Suffrage Up In The Air:” The Equal Suffrage Association’s 1912 Publicity Campaign”
On February 5, 1970, the Franklin Daily Journal in Franklin, Indiana proclaimed air pollution the “Disease of the Seventies.” It predicted that “gas masks, domed cities, special contact lenses to prevent burned eyes” would become “standard equipment if life is to exist” by 2000, unless action against widespread air pollution was taken soon. The Daily … Continue reading “Hoosier Women’s Fight for Clean Air”
The Indiana woman’s suffrage movement was not a monolith. Its supporters held a spectrum of beliefs formed from their different backgrounds and perspectives. Nowhere was this more apparent than in rifts over strategy. Hoosier suffragists all believed women should have the vote, but clashed over the best course of action for winning it. By 1912, … Continue reading “A Silent Roar: Indiana Suffragists’ 1913 March to the Statehouse”
Historians often refer to the Suffrage Movement. However, an examination of its leaders shows many movements with sometimes conflicting goals and methods. Evaluating the campaign for the Indiana General Federation of Women’s Clubs presidency in 1915 illustrates this and provides a glimpse into the everyday happenings of suffrage at the local and state levels, including … Continue reading “A Petty Affair: Grace Julian Clarke and the 1915 Campaign for the Indiana General Federation of Women’s Clubs Presidency”
Dr. Sarah Stockton earned a reputation as a gritty, compassionate physician at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later renamed Central State Hospital). According to a Moment of Indiana History, her appointment as assistant physician in the Women’s Department in 1883 was regarded as “significant enough to the cause of women’s rights as to merit … Continue reading “Dr. Sarah Stockton: In Love with Her Profession”
Ross Lockridge Sr. and Jr. left an indelible mark on Indiana history through traditional history publications and fictional depiction. However, the father and son have yet to be cemented in the annals of state history. We hope to contribute to that reversal. The senior Lockridge was born in Miami County, Indiana in 1877 and went … Continue reading “The Indelible Ross Lockridges”
The only effort I ever made was to state on divers[e] occasions that I was not a member of the Klan. – Samuel M. Ralston, 1924 Late in Ralston’s career as a Democratic politician in the 1920s, his party had to take a stand on the issue of the Ku Klux Klan‘s political influence. Would … Continue reading “Complicity in Neutrality? Samuel Ralston Denies Klan Affiliation”
