Dictionary of Wisconsin History
Search Results for: Keyword: 'Participation'
Term: League of Women Voters
Definition: Started in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt and other leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the League encouraged participation in the electoral process by women without advocating other women's issues: "We are not feminists primarily," wrote one leader; "we are citizens."
[Source: McBride, Genevieve G. On Wisconsin women. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993); Reader's Companion to American Hitory (http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/)]
15 records found
American Bowling Congress
Benson, Taylor
Bull Run, Second Battle of
Crawford, John S. 1923
Donnelly, Davis A. 1927
Haase, Robert D. 1923
Jones, George Wallace 1804 - 1896
Langeland, Knud 1813 - 1888
League of Women Voters
Longfellow's Madison Poem
Morton, Earl D. 1918
Olson, Jack B. 1920
Rasmusen, Holger B. 1894
Wilderness, Battle of the
World War Two (1939-1945)
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