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Women's History
Suffrage whole: the Indiana course at county grain
BRANCH · WOMEN'S HISTORY · THE BALLOT
Lead: Indiana's suffrage course is sixty-nine years long and ends in a single winter week. It begins, by the state's own centennial history, in 1851, when Winchester native Amanda Way called a women's rights convention and the…
Firsts in public office, tested one by one
BRANCH · WOMEN'S HISTORY · FIRSTS — VERIFIED OR UNVERIFIED, NEVER COMPILED
Lead: A compiled list of firsts is how errors become tradition, so each first below was tested separately against the reachable record, and each prints at its own strength. Two offices verify a woman in the seat at a date…
The club movement and the ballot's institutions
BRANCH · WOMEN'S HISTORY · CLUBS, THE LEAGUE, THE Y.W.C.A.
Lead: The club movement's local artifact is a yearbook. The Archive.org record holds the Carlisle Clover Club's books — a handwritten membership book for 1916–1917 and a printed yearbook for 1932–1933 — catalogued as Carlisle…
Black women's organizing, at tested size
BRANCH · WOMEN'S HISTORY · OLIVE TOWNSHIP — A TESTED NEGATIVE WITH ITS BOUNDARY
Lead: The instruments searched were the county histories and church record, the Olivet A.M.E. record and nomination file, the Huggart Settlement scholarship, and the state parks and historical bureau accounts of Black settlement…
The sisters as a workforce: St. Stanislaus Kostka's school
BRANCH · WOMEN'S HISTORY · TERRE COUPEE · A CONFLICT PRINTED WHOLE
Lead: Who taught the children of Terre Coupee is a question the record answers two ways, and both answers print here unmerged. The parish itself was organized in October 1884 under Father Valentine Czyzewski of St. Hedwig's…