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Publisher
National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co.
Date Created
1910/1919
Description
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) handbill listing the reasons why women teachers need the vote. Reasons given include: to improve schools, to secure adequate salaries, to secure tenure of office, to safeguard food, clothing, and hygienic welfare for students, to protect children from labor exploitation, to protect children from other exploitation, and to " train the citizens of the future and must have practical, first hand knowledge of government in order to teach civics with interest and thoroughness." It encourages readers to join the Teacher's Section of their local suffrage league.
Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project
Corporate Name Subject
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Topical Subject
Education; Suffrage; Women--Suffrage--United States
Genre
handbills
Local Genre
text
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Adèle Goodman Clark Papers
Source
Teachers Need The Vote! Reasons Why Teachers Should Work for Woman Suffrage, M 9 Box 48, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
M009_b048_i003.pdf