Hazel Miller postcard to Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, September 26,   Save
Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association Records
Description: Hazel Miller wrote this letter to the headquarters of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association on September 26, 1914, to request literature on women's suffrage. She was planning to use the materials at her Grange Meeting and explained that she would be able to use the materials well if she received them quickly. The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1025_B01F10_17_01
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Pataskala (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio);