Grassroots Women's Organizations : Women's Suffrage in Wisconsin. Part 2, The Papers of Ada Lois James, 1816-1952

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James, Ada Lois, 1876-1952

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"Grassroots Women's Organizations: Women's Suffrage in Wisconsin, Part 2: The Papers of Ada Lois James, 1816-1952, together with Part 1, provides a view into the struggles and personalities of the ...

"Grassroots Women's Organizations: Women's Suffrage in Wisconsin, Part 2: The Papers of Ada Lois James, 1816-1952, together with Part 1, provides a view into the struggles and personalities of the women's suffrage movement, especially in Wisconsin, which was the first state to ratify the federal women's suffrage amendment. Part 1 details the suffrage campaign in Wisconsin and the suffragists' other interests, such as social reform and the formation of the League of Women Voters. This collection concerns one person in the movement, Ada Lois James, but also covers her family and its influence in the women's suffrage movement and Wisconsin history."-- ProQuest History Vault

"Papers of Ada James, a social reformer, humanitarian, and pacifist residing in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Family correspondence, 1816-1904, contains material on her parents, David G. James and Laura Briggs James; these papers reflect her father's interest in employment for women, woman suffrage, spiritualism, birth control, and socialism. Among the volumes are also diaries, 1865, 1882-1904, and proceedings of the meetings of the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, 1885-1903, kept by her mother. Ada James' correspondence dates 1890-1952 and documents her suffrage activity in the Political Equality League, the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, and the National Woman's Party; and her work on behalf of pacifism, prohibition, and progressivism. After 1925 her correspondence deals principally with social work, particularly the founding and development of the Children's Board of Richland County."-- Abstract from finding aid for the physical collection.

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