There are many women whose lives inspire us, and Women’s History Month gives us a chance learn about them. I’d also like to remind folks of a man who contributed much to supporting women as equal members of society. His name was Harry Lane. He was an ardent suffragist during the time of Blue Thread, [...]
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Harry Lane for Women’s History Month
Posted by Ruth on March 5, 2013
http://bluethreadbook.com/2013/03/05/harry-lane-for-womens-history-month/
Quick! Go See This Suffrage Play!
Here, cribbed in its entirety, is an article from Willamette University. You still have time to see this play. Go for it! WU Theatre Presents “Brightly Dawning Day” in February The battle for women’s voting rights in Oregon was hard-fought and hard-won, taking place in parlors, public squares and print media. In celebration of the [...]
Posted by Ruth on February 19, 2013
http://bluethreadbook.com/2013/02/19/quick-go-see-this-suffrage-play/
Look Who’s Here: 2013
Thanks to the meticulous savers at the Library of Congress, I can bring you this cover of Puck magazine from December 27, 1911. The caption reads: “LOOK WHO’S HERE!” Father Time is ushering out 1911, who appears to be startled, aghast, and amazed at the new year 1912. Instead of the usual chubby baby boy [...]
Posted by Ruth on January 1, 2013
http://bluethreadbook.com/2013/01/01/look-whos-here-2013/
Oregon’s First Woman Mayor
This isn’t a centennial celebration, but almost. On December 18, 1913, the residents of Warrenton, Oregon, a small town near the northwest tip of the state, chose Clara Cynthia Munson to be their next mayor. Someone had nominated her earlier that year, and a Mr. Dietrich decided to run as well, to protect the good [...]
Posted by Ruth on December 21, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/12/21/oregons-first-woman-mayor/
The Proclamation!
One hundred years ago today, Oregon Governor Oswald West issued the proclamation giving women the right to vote. Abigail Scott Duniway had the well deserved honor of drafting the document, which you see here, both transcribed courtesy of Oregon State Archives and in her handwriting. Proclamation State of Oregon–Executive Department, Salem, Oregon, November 30, 1912 [...]
Posted by Ruth on November 30, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/11/30/the-proclamation/
Maud Malone Heckles 100 Years Ago
The woman suffrage campaign in Blue Thread plays out against the broader backdrop of the presidential campaign nationally. Unlike the 2012 campaign between two major candidates—Barack Obama and Mitt Romney—the 1912 had three major candidates. Democrat Woodrow Wilson (then governor of New Jersey) and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt (TR) challenged Republican president William Howard Taft. Some [...]
Posted by Ruth on November 15, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/11/15/maud-malone-heckles-100-years-ago/
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Here’s a blog post from Suffrage Wagon that I can’t resist sending along to you, in honor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born November 12, 1815. She died before the suffrage campaign in Blue Thread, but she would have been pleased with the results. Happy birthday, Elizabeth.
Posted by Ruth on November 12, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/11/12/happy-birthday-elizabeth-cady-stanton/
Thanks to Oregon Men, Today’s the Day!
Decades after the first attempt to give Oregon women the right to vote, the issue once again appeared on the ballot on November 5, 1912. The majority of men who voted in the precinct of Miriam’s family in Blue Thread voted against suffrage for women. But statewide 61,265 men didn’t share Julius Josefsohn’s opinion of [...]
Posted by Ruth on November 5, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/11/05/thanks-to-oregon-men-todays-the-day/
Women Say “Vote NO for Suffrage”
Let’s be fair. Men weren’t the only people who voted against suffrage for women–in Oregon and elsewhere. A hundred years ago this week, officers of the Oregon State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women sent a letter to the editor of the Oregonian. The head of the association was Eva Bailey (Mrs. F. [...]
Posted by Ruth on October 25, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/10/25/women-say-vote-no-for-suffrage/
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