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Auto Tours for Women's Suffrage: An Oral Memoir

 
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Type: Library or Collection
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary
Author: Center for History and New Media/American Social History Project
Subject: Humanities
Institution Name: American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
Collection Name: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)

Abstract: The struggle for women's suffrage, which culminated with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920, involved many different kinds of women and many different tactics. Laura Ellsworth Seiler, interviewed by historian Sherna Gluck in 1973, came from a prosperous New York state family and started a suffrage club while a student at Cornell. In this excerpt from Gluck's interview, Seiler recalled campaigning for suffrage after college on an automobile tour, with her mother in tow as chaperon. In contrast to some historical accounts that emphasized the narrowing of the campaign in the 20th century, Seiler remembered arguing for the vote along with other reforms, and emphasizing the importance of suffrage as a way to improve social conditions.

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Language: English

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