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CHAPTER LI. | |
Nebraska | 802-809 |
Same as above — (School Suffrage). | |
CHAPTER LII. | |
Nevada | 810-814 |
Same as above. | |
CHAPTER LIII. | |
New Hampshire | 815-819 |
Same as above — School Suffrage. | |
CHAPTER LIV. | |
New Jersey | 820-834 |
Organization — Attempt for amendment for School Suffrage — Defeated by 10,000 majority — Legislative action and laws — First State in which women voted — How they were deprived of the ballot — Franchise now possessed — Office-holding — Women in professions. | |
CHAPTER LV. | |
New Mexico | 835-838 |
Organization — Legislative action and laws — Office-holding — Education — Equal rights for women among Spanish-Americans. | |
CHAPTER LVI. | |
New York | 839-873 |
Battle-ground for Woman Suffrage — Conventions for fifty years — Great campaign in 1894 to secure amendment from Constitutional Convention — Governors Hill and Flower recommend women delegates Parties refuse to nominate them — Miss Anthony speaks in all the sixty counties — Vast amount of work by other women — In New York and Albany women organize in opposition — 600,000 petition for suffrage, 15,000 against — Convention refuses to submit Amendment to voters — Long-continued efforts in Legislature — Liberal laws for women — School and Taxpayers' Suffrage — Many women in office — Superior educational advantages — Political and other clubs. | |
CHAPTER LVII. | |
North Carolina | 874-876 |
Agitation of suffrage question — Legislative action and laws — Education. | |
CHAPTER LVIII. | |
Ohio | 877-885 |
Organization — Mrs. Southworth's excellent scheme of enrollment — Legislative action and laws — Successful contest in Legislature and Supreme Court for School Suffrage — Women on School Boards — Education — Clubs — Rookwood pottery. |