


Seven interviews are with women who campaignedįor suffrage at state and local levels, working with other suffrage organizations. They are Sara Bard Field,īurnita Shelton Matthews, Alice Paul, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, and Mabel Vernon. Five held important positions in the National Woman's Party.

The project, underwritten by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, enabled the Regional Oral History Office to record first-handĪccounts of this early period in the development of women's rights with twelve women representing both the leadership and The contribution of this small but highly active has been the major focus of the series. Because the existingĭocumentation of the suffrage struggle indicates a need for additional material on the campaign of the National Woman's Party, Of movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. In order to document their activities in behalf of passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and their continuing careers as leaders The Suffragists Oral History Project was designed to tape record interviews with the leaders of the woman's suffrage movement Preface to Suffragists Oral History Project Passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. Topanga, California 90290, or to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Library, and should include identification of the specific Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Feminist History Research Project, P.O. Written permission of the Director of the Feminist History Research Project or the Director of The Bancroft Library of the

No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the This manuscript is made available for reserach purposes. Sherna Gluck Copyright © 1975 by The Regents of the University of California Suffragists Oral History Project The Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison Sylvie Grace Thompson Thygeson In the Parlor Jessie Haver Butler On the Platform Miriam Allen deFord In the Streets Laura Ellsworth Seiler On the Soapbox Ernestine Hara Kettler Behind Bars Interviews Conducted by
