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1920 Anti-Women's Suffrage Broadside - Raleigh, North Carolina - The Woman's Bible - Spectacular

Inv# AM1135
State(s): North Carolina
Years: 1920

Important Anti-Women's Suffrage poster quotes Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Large 9 1/2" x 16 1/2", printed in Raleigh, N.C. in 1920, the very year of the women's vote. Some strong southern feelings are expressed such as "This is the teaching of the National Suffrage Leaders. Are you willing for women who hold these views to become political powers in our country?" Important piece of women's history. Choice!

The Women's National Anti-suffrage League (1908–18) was established in London on 21 July 1908. Its aims were to oppose women being granted the vote in parliamentary elections, although it did support their having votes in local government elections. It was founded at a time when there was a resurgence of support for the women's suffrage movement.

An anti-suffrage correspondence had taken place in the pages of The Times through 1906–07, with further calls for leadership of the anti-suffrage movement being placed in The Spectator in February 1908. Possibly as early as 1907, a letter was circulated to announce the creation of a National Women's Anti-Suffrage Association and inviting recipients to become a member of the Central Organising Committee or a member. It was issued under the names of thirty peeresses who became prominent anti-suffragists, as well as a number of peers and MPs. However, the first meeting of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League only took place the following year on 21 July, at the Westminster Palace Hotel with Lady Jersey in the Chair. Seventeen people were nominated to the central committee at this meeting, including Mrs Humphry Ward in the chair of the Literary Committee and Gertrude Bell as secretary. Other members were Mrs Frederic Harrison (Ethel Bertha Harrison), Sophia Lonsdale, Violet Markham, Beatrice Chamberlain and Hilaire Belloc MP. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Anti-Suffrage_League

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Price: $450.00