Here's a list of people we've identified so far in the iconic photo of Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the Kentucky legislature's ratification of the 19th Amendment passed on June 6, 1920. Library of Congress, Lot 5543, https://www.loc.gov/item/97510716/. Suggestions for corrections to our guesses are heartily welcomed.
Doraine Bailey has been hot on the trail of mystery to find out who the people are in the above mentioned photograph with Governor Morrow - and she encouraged Dr. Melanie Goan to request the Library of Congress (LOC) to send out a photo of the notes on the back of the photo - as mentioned in the LOC notes for the archived item. An intern for Dr. Goan transcribed the handwritten notes as follows:
Author: National American Woman Suffrage Association, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Title: Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, v.43-45 1911-1913.
Publisher: Washington, D.C.: The Association, 1893-1913.
The constant interplay in the suffrage movement between "conservative" women or to the more radical groups is an interesting point of analysis in understanding the complexity of how disfranchised people organized to win their rights. Radicals across the globe took on the originally derogatory term of "suffragette" - and the more mainstream suffragists would go to great lengths to show they were not part of any of that.
The Louisville Equal Rights Association is founded at a meeting in the home of Susan Look Avery. The main organizers are Avery, Margaret A. Watts and Caroline Apperson Leech.
Resources:
50W29: "Thirtieth Convention of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association" Program, box 1, folder 3 of the Mary Shelby Wilson Woman's Democratic Club papers, 1910-1950, bulk 1920-1932 (bulk dates), University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
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Thirtieth Convention of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association
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