on of suffrage question -- Legislative action and laws --
Education.
CHAPTER LVIII.
OHIO 877-885
Organization -- Mrs. Southworth's excellent scheme of enrollment
-- Legislative action and laws -- Successful contest in
Legislature and Supreme Court for School Suffrage -- Women on
School Boards -- Education -- Clubs -- Rookwood pottery.
CHAPTER LIX.
OKLAHOMA 886-890
Organization -- Legislative action and laws -- Attempt to secure
Full Suffrage from Legislature of 1899 -- Eastern "antis" and
Oklahoma liquor dealers co-operate -- Treachery of a pretended
friend -- Office-holding -- School Suffrage.
CHAPTER LX.
OREGON 891-897
Organization -- Congress of Women -- Legislature submits Suffrage
Amendment -- Defeated in 1900 by only 2,000 votes, nearly all in
Portland -- Excellent laws for women -- School Suffrage --
Occupations.
CHAPTER LXI.
PENNSYLVANIA 898-906
Organization -- Press work -- Philadelphia society -- Women
taxpayers -- Legislative action and laws -- Office-holding --
Hannah Penn a Governor -- Women in professions -- Oldest Medical
College for Women -- Educational advantages -- Clubs.
CHAPTER LXII.
RHODE ISLAND 907-921
Early organization -- State officers -- Legislative action and
laws -- Campaign for Woman Suffrage Amendment in 1887 -- Ably
advocated but defeated -- Efforts to secure Amendment from
Constitutional Convention in 1897 -- Women in office -- Admitted
to Brown University -- Clubs and Local Council of Women.
CHAPTER LXIII.
SOUTH CAROLINA 922-925
Organization -- Legislative action and laws -- Office-holding --
Education.
CHAPTER LXIV.
TENNESSEE 926-930
Organization -- Protest of women against disfranchisement --
Legislative action -- Cruel laws for women -- Occupations --
Education.
CHAPTER LXV.
TEXAS 931-935
Organization -- Laws -- Office-holding -- Occupations --
Education.
CHAPTER LXVI.
UTAH 936-956
Women enfranchised by Territorial Legislature in 1870 -- _Woman's
Exponent_ -- Congress disfranchises women in 1887 -- They
organize to secure their rights -- Canvass the State and hold
mass meetings -- Appear before Constitutional Convention and ask
for Suffrage Amendment, which is granted--Miss Anthony and the
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw visit Salt Lake
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