History of SD League of Women Voters
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See also, my posts:
- Where do we find Women’s Suffrage in South Dakota History?, September 5, 2015.
- Songs of Suffrage in South Dakota, August 23, 2018.
- The Influenza Epidemic in South Dakota, from Suffragists’ Letters, September 7, 2019.
- Socialism and Suffrage in SoDak, December 3, 2019.
- Journalist Suffragists in South Dakota, February 26, 2020.
- Knocking at the Door: The Legislative Work of South Dakota Suffragists, April 8, 2020.
- The 1916 Campaigns, April 20, 2020.
- Food and Suffrage in South Dakota, June 6, 2020.
- Matilda Hindman and the 1890 South Dakota Suffrage Campaign, July 9, 2020.
- Suffrage Appeals for Political Party Endorsements in the 1890 SoDak Campaign, July 23, 2020.
- Susan B. Anthony in SoDak, July 29, 2020.
- Queer History, Gender History, and South Dakota Suffrage, June 7, 2022.
- Educator Suffragists in South Dakota, December 8, 2023.
Based on the research I’ve been reading, the following are topics that would make interesting research articles. If anyone else takes one up, there are materials on this site, and I might be able to share copies of raw notes too.
- SD suffrage and Native people
- SD suffrage and European immigrants
- Suffrage movement and female ministers (especially Unitarian)
- Suffrage movement and farmers, incl. Farmers’ Alliance
- Suffrage movement and Socialism in the Midwest
- Suffrage movement and the peace movement (pacifism) in the lead-up to WWI
- The use of newspapers, columns, and editorials in the SD suffrage movement
- Women in the newspaper industry in South Dakota
- The 1885 bill, debate, and veto
- The experience of travel in SD as a woman/women.
- Ethel Jacobsen (and other?), SD anti-suffrage advocates
Other resources:
Check out the State of South Dakota’s official suffrage centennial delegation, Her Vote. Her Voice., which is raising funds for the South Dakota State Historical Society’s commemoration efforts and consolidating news and resources for local events around the state.
South Dakota Public Broadcasting, “The Vote SD“
Includes the full documentary “Simple Justice: Suffrage in South Dakota” aired on August 10th, 2020, and there are a number of radio interviews from SDPB Radio’s “In the Moment” that were done leading up to the centennial. My short radio interview from July 14, 2020 on state suffragists Emma Smith DeVoe, Lydia Johnson, and Rose Bower.
Girl Scouts USA have two patch programs related to the suffrage centennial:
- A Suffrage Centennial Patch, with activity ideas and program toolkits,
- A Ranger patch in partnership with the National Park Service:
19th Amendment Centennial Patch
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