More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Another sign today that at long last, victory in the generations-long struggle for woman suffrage is in sight. Carrie Chapman Catt has issued a call for the final annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which will be held at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, February 12th to 18th.
A noble, but ultimately unsuccessful effort today to get the New York County Medical Society to call for changing the State’s present anti-birth-control law, which, except under very specific circumstances, makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for anyone to give out information on contraception, or birth control devices themselves.
A colorful and moving tribute to Inez Milholland Boissevain today at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. It was totally fitting that her memorial would be in such a place, having given her life for the cause of political equality for women.
Fourteen women Marines at the Cherry Point, North Carolina Marine Corps Air Station have now become the first to qualify for flight pay. They do the same jobs as the male flight crew mechanics by servicing and checking the planes and warming up the engines, and will now spend at least four hours a month in flight to earn their extra pay.
Perkins examined and demolished the many myths and stereotypes that make it even harder for women to find work today than men.
A “Revolutionary” form of protest today by Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She told the tax collector that she would neither list nor voluntarily pay taxes on her property and advised all other voteless women to do the same.
The long battle to get Congress to approve the Susan B. Anthony (woman suffrage) Amendment is nearly over, according to Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Yet another reason why the Equal Rights Amendment is needed was shown today when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Michigan law which clearly discriminates on the basis of sex.
Amelia Earhart added another “first” to her illustrious career today by becoming the first woman to fly an autogyro carrying a passenger.
Though New York State’s suffrage referendum went down to defeat on November second, Harriot Stanton Blatch said today that she and a number of other suffragists are still determined to cast their votes in next November’s Presidential election, and have figured out a way to legally do it.