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timeline of women's suffrage in Connecticut is...
19th century[edit]
1860s[edit]
1866
- November: Hartford Courant publishes articles in favor of women's suffrage.[1]
1867
- Frances Ellen Burr introduces a women's suffrage bill in the Connecticut General Assembly which is narrowly defeated.[2]
- December: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton visit Hartford.[3]
1869
- October 29: Women's suffrage convention held in Hartford, Connecticut.[4]
- The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA) is formed.[5]
1870s[edit]
1870
- September: CWSA held its annual meeting in Hartford.[6]
1873
- December 15: John Hooker's opinion on the trial of Susan B. Anthony is published in the Hartford Courant.[7] Hooker wrote that "she had the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment."[7]
1874
- Anthony and Isabella Beecher Hooker speak at Cheney Hall in Manchester, Connecticut.[8]
1877
- Married women are able to legally control their own property.[9]
1880s[edit]
1884
- A bill to allow women the right to vote in school district meetings loses in the state legislature.[10]
1885
- The Hartford Equal Rights League is founded.[11]
- The state legislature again defeats a school suffrage bill.[12]
1886
- A bill for full women's suffrage is defeated in the state legislature.[12]
1887
- Two women's suffrage bills in the state legislature are marked as "Ought not to pass" and go no further in committee.[12]
1889
- The Meriden Political Equality Club was formed.[10]
1890s[edit]
1893
- Women gain the right to vote for school officials.[13]
- Rose Payton is the first African American woman to register to vote in Hartford.[14]
1894
- The Equal Rights Club of Willimantic is formed.[10]
1895
- A presidential suffrage bill does not pass in the state legislature.[12]
- A bill for women's municipal suffrage passes in the state House, but fails in the state Senate.[12]
1897
- School suffrage law is amended, making voter registration more complicated.[15]
- Bills for presidential and municipal suffrage do not pass in the state legislature.[12]
1899
- A municipal suffrage bill does not pass again in the state legislature.[16]
20th century[edit]
1900s[edit]
1901
- The state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.[17]
1902
- The state suffrage convention is held in Collinsville, Connecticut.[18]
- Mary Seymour Howell campaigns in Connecticut on behalf of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[19]
1903
- The state suffrage convention is held at the home of Isabella Beecher Hooker in Hartford.[18]
1905
- November: The state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.[18]
1906
- The state suffrage convention is held in Meriden, Connecticut.[18]
1907
- October: Suffragists hold their state convention in Hartford.[18]
1909
- The state suffrage convention is held in Meriden.[18]
- Women gain the right to vote on school and library issues.[13]
- October: Emmeline Pankhurst visits and speaks in Hartford.[20]
- The Hartford Political Equality League (later called the Hartford Equal Franchise League) is formed.[20]
1910s[edit]
1910
- The Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is formed.[9]
- Fall: The state suffrage convention is held in Greenwich.[20]
- At the Greenwich annual farmer's picnic, suffragists from CWSA invited Ella Reeve Bloor to speak.[21]
1911
- Activists hold the state suffrage convention in Bridgeport.[22]
1912
- Hartford suffrage groups send postcards to people in surrounding areas in order to advertise women's suffrage events.[23]
- The annual suffrage convention is held in New Haven, Connecticut.[22]
- The New Haven Political Equality Club is founded after the convention.[22]
1913
- July: The Wallingford Equal Franchise League raises money and awareness by selling food and giving away brochures at July 4th events.[21]
- The state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.[22]
1914
- May 2: Thousands march in suffrage parade through Hartford.[24]
- Summer: CWSA holds a "rowboat platform" at beaches in Connecticut, sharing information about women's suffrage to beach-goers.[25]
- June: A car tour supporting women's suffrage started through Connecticut.[26]
- September: CWSA staff a booth at the Connecticut Fair Grounds, providing suffrage literature and outreach.[26]
- The annual suffrage convention is held in Hartford.[22]
1915
- October: State suffrage convention is held in Hartford.[27]
1916
- A large parade with thousands of participants and spectators takes place in New Haven.[28]
- September 7: The Connecticut State Federation of Labor votes in favor of women's suffrage.[29]
- The state suffrage convention is held in New Haven.[30]
1917
- February: The Connecticut House judiciary committee hears testimony from both CWSA and from anti-suffragists on women voting in Connecticut.[31]
- November 7-8: Forty-eighth annual state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.[32][33]
1918
- The Connecticut Federation of Labor endorses the Nineteenth Amendment almost unanimously.[34]
- African American suffragists organize their own suffrage league in New Haven.[34]
- July 12: Suffragists form rallies in Hartford and Simsbury, Connecticut and decide to appeal directly to the President on the question of women's suffrage.[35]
- States suffrage convention is held in Hartford.[36]
1919
- January 8: Josephine Bennett, a member of the NWP, is arrested for burning Woodrow Wilson's speech in front of the White House.[37]
- March 10: The Prison Special stops in Hartford.[4]
- The annual suffrage convention is held in Bridgeport.[36]
1920s[edit]
1920
- May 3-7: "Emergency Week" is declared in regards to blocking the vote on women's suffrage. The Suffrage Emergency Corps is assembled to support the federal amendment.[38]
- September 14: Connecticut state legislature ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment.[39]
1921
- January 18: The Connecticut League of Women Voters is formed.[39]
References[edit]
- ^ Jenkins 2011, p. 136.
- ^ Campbell, Susan (2013). Tempest-tossed : the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker. Internet Archive. Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, Connecticut. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8195-7340-7.
- ^ Jenkins 2011, p. 140.
- ^ a b "Woman Suffrage". New York Daily Herald. 1869-10-30. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Connecticut and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ^ "Woman Suffrage Convention". Hartford Courant. 1870-08-30. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Cohn & Schulz 2021, p. 325.
- ^ "Historical Society to re-enact suffrage speeches". Journal Inquirer. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Jessica D. (2016-06-02). "The Long Road to Women's Suffrage in Connecticut". Connecticut Explored. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ a b c Anthony 1902, p. 536.
- ^ "Frances Ellen Burr". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ^ a b c d e f Anthony 1902, p. 537.
- ^ a b Nichols 1983, p. 7.
- ^ "Women of Color Suffrage". Connecticut Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ Nichols 1983, p. 9.
- ^ Anthony 1902, p. 538.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 68.
- ^ a b c d e f Harper 1922, p. 69.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 68-69.
- ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 70.
- ^ a b Marino 2013, p. 230.
- ^ a b c d e Harper 1922, p. 71.
- ^ Jenkins 2011, p. 137.
- ^ "Votes for Women Supporters March; Thousands Throng Streets to Watch". Hartford Courant. 1914-05-03. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Marino 2013, p. 230-231.
- ^ a b Jenkins 2011, p. 141.
- ^ "Votes for Women Enthusiasts Here". Hartford Courant. 1915-10-20. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jenkins 2011, p. 142.
- ^ "Convention Passes Votes Resolution Opposed by Women". Hartford Courant. 1916-09-08. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 72.
- ^ "Warm Hearing on Suffrage Bills Before Judiciary". Hartford Courant. 1917-02-28. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-12-23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "State Suffragists in Convention". Hartford Courant. 1917-11-08. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-12-23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 73.
- ^ a b "Voices of the Marginalized". An Unfinished Revolution: The Woman's Suffrage Centennial. Greenwich Historical Society. 2020. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ "Connecticut". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 74.
- ^ "Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett Burns President's Speech, Arrested in Washington". Hartford Courant. 1919-01-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 76.
- ^ a b "What happened in Connecticut with the 19th Amendment Ratification?". League of Women Voters. 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
Sources[edit]
- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Cohn, Henry S.; Schulz, Michael (August 2021). "John Hooker, Reporter of Judicial Decisions". Connecticut Law Review. 53 (2): 295–334 – via EBSCOhost.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Jenkins, Jessica D. (September 2011). "Marching Shoulder to Shoulder: New Life in the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement". Connecticut History. 50 (2): 131–145. doi:10.2307/44370361 – via EBSCOhost.
- Marino, Kelly (Fall 2013). "Making a Scene for Suffrage in Connecticut: Emily Pierson and Educational Theatrics, 1910-1917". Connecticut History. 52 (2): 226–242. doi:10.2307/44370195 – via EBSCOhost.
- Nichols, Carole (1983). Votes and More for Women: Suffrage and After in Connecticut. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc. ISBN 0866561927 – via Internet Archive.
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