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 ...
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Nebraska Next: The Fight to Enfranchise Nebraska Women
The movement to enfranchise Nebraska women started as early as 1855 when suffragist Amelia Bloomer spoke before an audience in Omaha. Things heated up after Nebraska ...
Women’s History Month Resources
March is Women's History Month, so all month long we are celebrating the contributions of women to Nebraska history. Below you can find long-form Nebraska ...
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 ...
No Votes for Women—Nebraska Anti-Suffrage Propaganda
Photo: “Woman’s Rights #2,” detail of 1902 stereograph image by Omaha and Lincoln photographer J.M. Calhoun. History Nebraska RG3279-2
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Don’t Let Women Vote If You Want to Keep Drinking
If you let women vote, will they take away your beer? There was a time when many Nebraska men feared their wives and daughters would do just that.
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“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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Woodbey for Regent! When the Nebraska Prohibition Party nominated a Black woman in 1895
At the Nebraska Prohibition Party’s statewide convention in 1895, held in July in Lincoln, C. E. Bentley (who was to be a Prohibition candidate for president in 1896) ...
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 ...
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