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Transcript and Show Notes for Indiana Women’s Suffrage: The New Day Dawns Jump to Show Notes Beckley: This is the second of a two-part series covering the long path to women’s suffrage in Indiana. If you haven’t listened to the first installment of this episode – Indiana Women’s Suffrage: The New Day Comes Slowly, you … Continue reading “THH Episode 37: Indiana Women’s Suffrage: The New Day Dawns”
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”
Scholar and reformer Sarah Parke Morrison is best remembered as the first female student and then professor at Indiana University. But she took on the role of trailblazer reluctantly, as she feared being the target of backlash against this furthering of women’s equality. Her fears were not unfounded. Unsurprisingly perhaps, she faced discrimination as she … Continue reading “Reluctant Renegade: Sarah Parke Morrison and Women’s Equality at Indiana University”
It is easy to assume that women unanimously supported woman’s suffrage, while men, clinging to their role as the households’ sole political actor, opposed it. However, this was not the case. In 1914, suffrage leader Alice Stone Blackwell wrote, “the struggle has never been a fight of woman against man, but always of broad-minded men … Continue reading ““Leaving Party Politics to Man:” How Some Hoosier Women Worked Against Suffrage”
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”
Transcript for Giving Voice: Susan Hall Dotson and Kisha Tandy Beckley: I’m Lindsey Beckley and this is Giving Voice. On today’s installment of Giving Voice, I have the pleasure of speaking with Susan Hall-Dotson, the African American history collections coordinator at the Indiana Historical Society, and Kisha Tandy, the curator of social history at the … Continue reading “THH Episode 38: Giving Voice: Susan Hall Dotson and Kisha Tandy”
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”
