Topic: Women’s Suffrage movement
Source #1
“Maryland Suffrage News”. 26 June, 1915 Maryland suffrage news. (Baltimore, Md.) 1912-1920, June 26, 1915, Image 1 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress (loc.gov)
This source was a map of the U.S showing all the states that allow women to vote. There is also text trying to convince women in the state of Maryland to join the movement. I think that this source is super interesting in learning how movements recruit members.
Source #2
Carrie Chapman Catt. Speech and Article File. 1892-1946; Articles; “What Women Have Done with the Vote,” The Independent, Oct. 17, 1924. Library Of Congress.
This is an article of Carrie Chapman Catt speaking on how the right for women to vote has and will change the country. She goes into detail on experiences with men being uncomfortable with the change that is occurring. I think people can learn a different perspective from this article. She does a good job at being the voice for women.
Source #3
Markel, Ed. 1916. “Votes for womens: international suffrage song”. Women’s Suffrage in sheet music. Library of congress.
Image 1 of Votes for women : international suffragists’ song | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
This is a song and the source is sheet music. This piece is about giving women the opportunity to vote. It also talks about being trapped under men. Overall I think this is a cool thing. I didn’t know that women used to write music to help their further progress the movement.
Source #4
Dolton, Patricia F., and Aimee Graham. “Women’s Suffrage Movement.” Reference & User Services Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 2, 2014, pp. 31-36. JSTOR, www.jstor.org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/refuseserq.54.2.31. Accessed 22 Feb. 2024.
Women’s Suffrage Movement on JSTOR (gmu.edu)
This is an article explaining what the women’s suffrage movement is. It also goes into detail about other authors that talk about women’s suffrage. I think that this is a good source for people who want a more deep dive into woman suffrage.
Source #5
DuBois, Ellen C.1987. “Outgrowing the Compact of the Fathers: Equal Rights, Woman Suffrage, and the United States Constitution, 1820-1878.” Journal of American History
Outgrowing the Compact of the Fathers: Equal Right… (gmu.edu)
This is a chapter of a book talking about integrating women’s rights and giving us a breakdown on how the movement progressed. With the author giving their thoughts.
Reflection
One thing I learned was how the women’s suffrage movement was promoted. I did not know that there were song’s, newspapers, and art dedicated to women suffrage. This really helped visualize how many types of sources there are. I definitely need to improve on finding sources and citing but this assignment definitely helped. When looking for sources online I thought it would be easy but it is quite hard. There were times where I was looking at sources and questioned its credibility. This added another layer of trouble to the mix I had to now question if a source was real or not. I managed and succeed in finding 5 sources.