Archival materials in Arkansas Women's Suffrage Centennial virtual exhibit have been shared by a variety of institutions across the state (and beyond). To continue your primary source research of the women's suffrage movement in Arkansas, visit the following repositories:
- Archives. Torreyson Library. University of Central Arkansas. Conway, Arkansas.
- Arkansas State Archives. Department of Arkansas Heritage. Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. Central Arkansas Library System. Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Bryn Mawr College Special Collections. Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
- Center for Arkansas History and Culture. University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- Garland County Historical Society. Hot Springs, Arkansas.
- Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.
- Old State House Museum. Department of Arkansas Heritage. Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Special Collections. University of Arkansas Libraries. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Arkansas.
- Special Collections and University Archives. W.E.B. Du Bois Library. University of Massachusetts Amhe.
Selected Bibliography
Books
Bernadette Cahill. Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote: The Little Rock Campaigns, 1868-1920. Little Rock: Butler Center Books, 2015.
Newspaper Articles
“Plan ‘Votes for Women’ Campaign.” Arkansas Gazette, February 26, 1911.
“Arkansas Women May Get Suffrage.” Arkansas Gazette, January 31, 1917.
“200 Women Attend Suffrage School.” Arkansas Gazette, March 6, 1917.
“Governor Signs Suffrage Measure.” Arkansas Gazette, March 7, 1917.
“[Assistant U.S. Attorney Rector] Thinks Women May Vote After June 7.” Arkansas Gazette, March 11, 1917.
“Women May Vote in Special Primary.” Arkansas Gazette, March 16, 1917.
“Woman’s Suffrage Bill Recommended.” Arkansas Gazette, March 16, 1917.
“[Mrs. T.T. Cotnam] Urges Teaches to pay Poll Tax.” Arkansas Gazette, June 8, 1917.
“Americanize the American Woman.” Arkansas Gazette, August 12, 1917.
“Miss Jane Pincus, Herald of Miss Vernon, Declines to Recognize it.” Arkansas Gazette, November 10, 1917.
“Greatest Victory Yet for Suffrage.” Arkansas Gazette, November 14, 1917.
“Picketing Gets Publicity, Says Miss Mabel Vernon.” Arkansas Gazette, November 19, 1917.
“[Senator Emory’s Bill] Would let Women Pass on Suffrage.” Arkansas Gazette, July 28, 1919.
“Suffrage is Ratified by Legislature.” Arkansas Gazette, July 29, 1919.
Journal Articles
Blair, Diane D., and Robert L. Savage. “Dimensions of Responsiveness to Women’s Policies in the Fifty States.” Women & Politics 4.2 (1984): 49-68. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
Chase, James S. “Laura Clay and the Woman’s Rights Movement.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 35.1 (1976): 101-102. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
Evins, Janie Synatzske. “Arkansas Women: Their Contribution to Society, Politics and Business, 1865-1900.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 44.2 (1985): 188-133. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
Ledbetter, Calvin R. Jr. “The Constitutional Convention of 1917-1918.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 34.1 (1975): 3-40. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
McCammon, Holly J. “’Out of the Parlors and into the Streets’: The Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movements.“ Social Forces 81.3 (2003): 787-818. Project Muse. Web. 27 Sept. 2016.
McCammon, Holly J. “Stirring Up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866-1914.” Social Forces 8.2 (2001): 449-480. Project Muse. Web. 27 Sept. 2016.
Pierce, Michael. “Great Women All, Serving a Glorious Cause: Freda Hogan Ameringer’s Reminiscences of Socialism in Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 69.4 (2010): 293-324. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
Rosen, Robyn L. “Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 54.4 (1995): 480-482. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
Ross, Frances. M. “New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 53.4 (1994): 495-496. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
Ross, Frances Mitchell. “The New Woman as Club Woman and Social Activist in Turn of the Century Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 50.4 (1991): 317-351. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 16 Sept. 2016.
Taylor, Antoinette Elizabeth. “The Woman Suffrage Movement in Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 15.1 (1956): 17-52.
U.S. Government Sources
American Memory. Library of Congress. “Votes For Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921.” Last Revised 1998. https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html.
Congress.gov. Library of Congress. “Constitution Annotated.” https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated.
National Archives. “Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment.” Last reviewed 2016. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage.
National Constitution Center. “Centuries of Citizenship: A Constitutional Timeline.” http://constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html.
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum. “The Women’s Suffrage Movement – It’s About Time!” http://www.woodrowwilson.org/education/for-students/the-womens-suffrage-movement-its-about-time.
Today in History. Library of Congress. “June 4th.” https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-04/
U.S. House. Woman Suffrage, with Minority Report. (H. Rp. 1216; Serial Set 7110) Text in: Proquest Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Senate. Hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, United States Senate, April 2, 1888. (S. Misdoc. 114; Serial Set 2517) Text in: Proquest Serial Set Digital Collection.
U.S. Senate. Woman Suffrage (S. Rp. 35; Serial Set 6897) Text in: Proquest Serial Set Digital Collection.
Wilson, Woodrow. Equal Suffrage. Address of the President of the United States delivered in the Senate of the United States on September 30, 1918. (S. Doc. 284; Serial Set 7330) Text in: Proquest Serial Set Digital Collection.
Carol Macheak and Karen Russ, Librarians, Ottenheimer Library, University of Arkansas at Little Rock