on of all parties -- Attempt to
secure suffrage by statute -- A pioneer in liberal laws for women
-- They hold offices not held by those of any other State --
Official statistics of woman's vote -- Many restrictions placed
on Municipal Suffrage -- Class of women who use the franchise.
CHAPTER XLI.
KENTUCKY 665-677
Organization -- Efforts to secure Full Suffrage from
Constitutional Convention -- State Association succeeds in
revolutionizing the property laws for women -- School Suffrage --
Educational facilities, etc.
CHAPTER XLII.
LOUISIANA 678-688
Women's work at Cotton Centennial and in Anti-lottery Campaign --
Organization for suffrage -- Efforts in Constitutional Convention
of 1898 -- Taxpayer's Suffrage granted to women -- Campaign in
New Orleans for Sewerage and Drainage -- Measure carried by the
women -- Napoleonic code of laws.
CHAPTER XLIII.
MAINE 689-694
Organization for suffrage -- Legislative action and laws --
Office-holding of women -- Occupations -- Education -- Clubs.
CHAPTER XLIV.
MARYLAND 695-700
Same as above -- Pioneers in Woman's Rights -- Women vote in
Annapolis -- Contest of Miss Maddox to practice law -- Work of
women for Medical Department of Johns Hopkins University.
CHAPTER XLV.
MASSACHUSETTS 701-750
Pioneer work for suffrage -- New England and State Associations
and May Festivals -- List of Officers -- Death of Lucy Stone --
Anti-Suffrage Association formed -- Fifty years of Legislative
Work -- Republicans declare for Woman Suffrage -- Submission of
Mock Referendum -- Campaign in its behalf -- Activity of the
"antis" -- Measure defeated, but woman's vote more than ten to
one in favor in every district -- Laws -- Equal guardianship of
children -- School Suffrage -- Women in office -- Education --
Pay of women teachers.
NATIONAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS 750-754
Organization -- Efforts to secure large school vote --
Legislative work -- Assistance in Referendum Campaign -- Press
work -- Many meetings held.
CHAPTER XLVI.
MICHIGAN 755-771
Organization -- Efforts in political conventions -- Municipal
Suffrage granted to women -- Declared unconstitutional by Supreme
Court -- Coarse methods of opponents -- Convention of National
Association in 1899 -- Laws -- S
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