Anthony, Susan B., in Grand Island
Nebraska lawyer Othman Abbott and his wife, early settlers in Grand Island, shared an interest in women's rights. In his Recollections of a Pioneer Lawyer, published by ...
women’s suffrage
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Bittenbender, Ada C.
Ada Cole Bittenbender, a leader in the woman suffrage and temperance movements, was also one of Nebraska's first woman lawyers and only the third woman admitted to ...
Carry Nation Debated Woman Suffrage at Seward
Carry A. Nation's anti-saloon activities in Nebraska in December 1901 and early 1902 took her not only to Lincoln and Omaha but to a number of smaller towns, where she ...
Carry Nation Tours Omaha
Carry A. Nation, famous as a Kansas "joint smasher" with her trademark hatchet, stopped in Omaha during her short lecture tour through Nebraska in early 1902. Chaperoned ...
Harriet S. Brooks, Woman Suffragist
By the time Harriet S. Brooks became a senior founding member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, she had been promoting women's right to vote for decades in ...
Woodbey for Regent!
Mrs. Woodbey was active in the temperance and woman suffrage movements. This cartoon from the February 8, 1919, issue of The Woman Citizen noted the connection between ...
Carry Nation Debated Woman Suffrage in Seward
The debate on the suffrage question at the opera house last evening . . . drew out a large and appreciative audience. Mrs. Nation is a motherly looking woman of middle ...
Ten Reasons Why Women Don’t Want the Right to Vote
For much of Women's History Month, we have been highlighting the contributions of women like Ada C. Bittenbender and Harriet S. Brooks to the fight for women's suffrage. ...
Ada C. Bittenbender and the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association
Ada Cole Bittenbender, a leader in the woman suffrage and temperance movements, was also one of Nebraska's first woman lawyers and only the third woman admitted to ...
Nebraska Next: The Fight to Enfranchise Nebraska Women
The photograph and artifacts featured above are just a sample of the items relating to the movement to ensure a woman’s right to vote in History Nebraska’s collection. ...
“Girls, if you want to vote…”: fraud, condescension, and voting rights in 1919 Nebraska
Anti-suffragists reacted to Nebraska's 1917 limited suffrage law with a mix of condescension and actual fraud. But it didn't work.
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Restoring Nebraska’s Suffrage History
As you've no doubt heard by now, the Nebraska History Museum is celebrating the opening of a new exhibit later this month. The Ford Conservation Center helped to restore ...
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