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Effie Frost of Junction City, Geary County, wrote this letter to Lucy Johnston, President of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, about a recent state election in which women in Kansas gained universal suffrage. Frost was disappointed that the Democratic candidates were elected, but she felt confident that many Democrats did support suffrage. Frost was particularly concerned that women use the vote to destroy "all vice breeding places," mentioning a pool hall in particular. Frost also informs Johnston of her efforts to keep alive a children's Sunday school class in Verdi, Kansas
Date: November 6, 1912
This source effectively illustrates the social issues that concerned women, as well as how women's suffrage promised to affect local communities.
KS:7th:4.1:Women's suffrage (2005)
Item Number: 211258
Call Number: Lucy B. Johnston Papers (Coll. 61), Box 5, Folder 8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211258
Collections - Manuscript - Johnston, Lucy Browne
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 - Elections
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Democrat
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Women
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Junction City
Places - Cities and towns - Verdi
Places - Counties - Geary
Places - Counties - Ottawa
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211258