NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY (4 resultados)

Pamphlet. Four panel brochure, 5x7 inches folded size, fine condition, portrait of Wilson on front panel.

Leaflet. Condición: Used - Very Good. No date, ca 1918? (4) pages. 5.25 x 7" sheet, unfolded. 12 points: citizenship, residence, national, state, county officers, district, party, registration, ballot, voting. VG.

Leaflet, small 4to, 10-7/16" x 8-1/8" (unfolded), printed on white stock which shows a little age-toning. This leaflet has not been folded so is quite fresh and in fine condition overall. The entry of the United States into World War I caused a rift between the Woman's Party (Alice Paul et al.) which adamantly refused to endorse the war and the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw et al.) who supported the American War effort. Despite this rift, the suffrage organizations continued to press for votes for women at the state and federal level. In 1917 women won the right to full suffrage in New York - the first Eastern state to have women's suffrage. it was an important victory for the movement. This leaflet points that with World War I countries such as Canada, Italy, Russia, France and "[e]ven little Yucatan" have women's suffrage: "THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK STATE HAVE NO LESS PATRIOTISM, COURAGE OR ABILITY THAN THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, RUSSIA OR CANADA." It goes on to argue that the war has demonstrated the country's need for its women to serve the nation "equally with men" and calls for men to "admit the justice and necessity of woman suffrage.For the sake of the strength it will add to the nation, vote for woman suffrage November 6th." An excellent example of the arguments on behalf of women's suffrage put before New Yorkers as they went to the polls. (6419).

No binding. Condición: Fine. New York State Woman Suffrage Party Ilustrador. Printed Document. Ticket of Support for Women's Suffrage. New York: New York State Woman Suffrage Party, ca. 1915-1917. 1 p., 4 3/4 x 3 in. This "ticket" allowed male voters to express their belief that "the vote should be granted to the Women of New York." Complete Transcript The New York State Woman Suffrage Party Headquarters, 303 5th Avenue, New York CityI, _________________________________________________________of _______________________ Street _______________________ Citybelieve that the vote should be granted to the Women of New York.__________________________ CountyAssembly District ___________ Election District __________Historical BackgroundCarrie Chapman Catt founded the New York State Woman Suffrage Party in 1909 at the Convention of Disfranchised Women. By 1915, the Woman Suffrage Party had 100,000 members, and that summer, suffragists organized 5,225 outdoor meetings, 13 concerts, and 28 parades and processions. A referendum in October 1915 lost, when 58 percent of the male voters in New York rejected suffrage for women.Undaunted, the Woman Suffrage Party used American participation in World War I as an additional reason that men should vote for suffrage. They canvassed from door to door with petitions, urging men to sign in favor of woman suffrage, and this ticket was directed at male voters to demonstrate to nervous politicians in Albany the extent of male support for women's suffrage. One suffrage periodical reported, "Meantime, in the cities, in the villages, in every up-State county, women are going about quietly, persistently, systematically, visiting every man, and asking him to sign a little yellow slip reading, 'I believe that the vote should be granted to the women of New York in 1915.' These yellow slips are heaping up like so much golden grain in headquarters."[1] This version does not have "in 1915" printed on it, which may suggest it was from the later campaign in 1917.The Woman Suffrage Party organized hierarchically, like Tammany Hall, to maintain both centralized direction and close contact with individuals. It also published The Woman Voter as its official journal from 1910 to 1917. Although the Party lobbied for women's suffrage, it opposed the confrontational protests by some suffragists outside the White House during much of 1917, believing that they tended to "harass the Government in this time of great stress."In March 1917, the New York legislature granted the suffragists a second chance to submit their amendment to the voters in November of that year. The Woman Suffrage Party raised more than $400,000 for the 1917 referendum, calling on very wealthy families to donate.On November 6, 1917, men in New York went to the polls to decide whether women should have the right to vote. The referendum passed by a vote of 703,129 to 600,776 (54 to 46 percent). Although the referendum failed upstate by 1,570 votes, New York City approved it by a margin of 103,863. Catt later declared that the campaign in New York State was the decisive battle of the American woman suffrage movement, leading Congress to propose the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[1] Rose Young, "Campaigning to Win in New York State," Jus Suffragii: Monthly Organ of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance 9 (August 1, 1915), 339. Printed Document.