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Anna Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, sent this telegram to Lucy Johnston, president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, announcing that women in Kansas had gained the vote.
Creator: Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
Date: November 6, 1912
This source can be used within a lecture as an illustration of the final vote for the suffrage amendment on November 6, 1912.
KS:7th:4.1:Women's suffrage (2005)
Item Number: 211737
Call Number: Lucy B. Johnston Coll. 61, Box 5, Folder 8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211737
Collections - Manuscript - Johnston, Lucy Browne
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Women's suffrage (Indicator 1) - Amendment to state constitution
Date - 1910s - 1912
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Women
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Telegram
People - Notable Kansans - Johnston, Lucy Browne, 1846-1937
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Telegrams
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211737