Title: "The Women Carried the Day at Lexington's Election. Kentucky Town Contests. In Many Cases They were Spirited and Exciting. Reform Tickets Offered and Party Lines Not Always Drawn. Results in Detail."
Publisher: Louisville Courier-Journal, 6 November 1895
Title: "Women Will Try Their Hands At Politics. Tuesday At Lexington. In Full Charge On the Board of Education. Political Round-ups in Many Parts of Kentucky. Speechs at Various Points."
Publisher: Louisville Courier-Journal, 3 November 1895.
Author: Kathryn A. Nicholas
Title: "Reexamining Women’s Nineteenth-Century Political Agency: School Suffrage and Office-Holding,"
Publisher: Journal of Policy History 30 (July 2018): 452-489.
Since 1838 Kentucky had served as the model for including women in the franchise for school board elections (taxpaying widows, single women and guardians of school children - with no specific reference to the voter's race - see 1838 KWSP Timeline posting). The earliest woman suffrage activists often referred to this partial suffrage as a part of the first step to gaining full citizenship rights for women.
As part of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project, H-Kentucky offers images of the original Constitution of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association (KWSA) adopted on October 27, 1881 - with many thanks to Sarah Dorpinhaus, Director of Digital Services in the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Page 4 of notebook "Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association" - includes
"Constitution of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association. Adopted October 27, 1881." Laura Clay Papers, Box 15, folder 11. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky.
Images provided by Sarah Dorpinghaus, SCRC Director of Digital Services, University of Kentucky.
Page 3 of notebook "Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association" -
"Constitution of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association. Adopted October 27, 1881." Laura Clay Papers, Box 15, folder 11. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky.
Images provided by Sarah Dorpinghaus, SCRC Director of Digital Services, University of Kentucky.
Page 2 of notebook "Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association" -
"Constitution of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association. Adopted October 27, 1881." Laura Clay Papers, Box 15, folder 11. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky.
Images provided by Sarah Dorpinghaus, SCRC Director of Digital Services, University of Kentucky.
Page 1 of notebook "Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association" -
"Constitution of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association. Adopted October 27, 1881." Laura Clay Papers, Box 15, folder 11. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky.
Images provided by Sarah Dorpinghaus, SCRC Director of Digital Services, University of Kentucky.
Front cover of notebook "Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association" - includes
"Constitution of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association. Adopted October 27, 1881." Laura Clay Papers, Box 15, folder 11. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky.
Images provided by Sarah Dorpinghaus, SCRC Director of Digital Services, University of Kentucky.
