Ada James papers and correspondence (1912-1923)

Author

James, Ada Lois, 1876-1952

Date

• 1912-1923

Publisher

[unpublished]

Summary

• This collection is comprised of selected folders from the larger Ada James Papers (Wis Mss OP) housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Ada James (1876-1952) was a leading social reformer, humanitarian, and pacifist from Richland Center, Wisconsin and daughter of state senator David G. James. The Ada James Papers document the grass roots organizing and politics that were required to promote and guarantee the passage of women's suffrage in Wisconsin and beyond. The materials digitized here are incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting James's role in the suffrage movement in the last years leading up to the passage of the nineteenth amendment. At that time, James was the former president of the Wisconsin Political Equality League, a member of the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association and of the National Woman's Party. Ms. James was a correspondent with many major leaders both in state and nationwide in the suffrage and social welfare movements including Jane Addams, Olympia Brown, Carrie Chapman Catt, Jessie J. Hooper, Belle Case La Follette, Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Theodora W. Youmans.