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Petitions from the 1859 Kansas Territory Legislative Assembly focusing on women's suffrage. Signers include Clarina Nichols, Charles and Sara Robinson, Mary E. Lane, and Augustus and Susan Wattles. After more than fifty years, women in Kansas won the right to vote in November 1912, with the approval of the Equal Suffrage Amendment to the state constitution. Funds for digitizing this item were provided by Marilyn S. Blackwell and Kristen T. Oertel, authors of Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood. The publication was the winner of the Coalition for Western Women's History Armitage Jameson prize. A searchable transcription is available by clicking "Text Version" below.
Date: 1859
Item Number: 225788
Call Number: Territorial Legislative Assembly, Miscellaneous Documents, 1856-1861
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 225788
Collections - State Archives
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Women
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Legislatures
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Petition
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Government
People - Notable Kansans - Nichols, Clarina Irene Howard, 1810-1885
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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