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CHAPTER XXV. | |
Alabama | 465-469 |
Organization for suffrage Legislative action and laws Office-holding Occupations Education Clubs. | |
CHAPTER XXVI. | |
Arizona | 47-474 |
Same as above (School Suffrage). | |
CHAPTER XXVII. | |
Arkansas | 475-477 |
Same as above. | |
CHAPTER XXVIII. | |
California | 478-494 |
Early efforts for the suffrage — Woman's Congress — Amendment submitted to voters — Great campaign of 1896 — National officers go to its assistance — Experience with State political conventions — Favorable attitude of the Press — Liquor dealers fight Woman Suffrage — Treachery of party managers — Defeat and its causes. | |
Southern California | 494-508 |
First suffrage society — Woman's Parliament — Organization and work for the great campaign — Methods worthy of imitation — Friendly spirit of the press and many associations — Southern California declares for Woman Suffrage — Laws for women — Ellen Clark Sargent's test case in San Francisco for the franchise — Large donations of women for education. | |
CHAPTER XXIX. | |
Colorado | 509-534 |
Organization for Woman Suffrage — Question submitted to voters — Endorsed by all political parties — Work of women in the campaign — Eastern anti-suffragists and Western liquor dealers join hands — Amendment carries by over 6,000 — Reasons for success — After the battle — Political work of women — Only three per cent, failed to vote in 1900 — Laws Legislature of 1809 urges all States to enfranchise women — General effects of woman suffrage. | |
CHAPTER XXX. | |
Connecticut | 535-542 |
Organization for suffrage — Legislative action and laws — School Suffrage — Office-holding of women — Occupations — Education — Clubs. |