Women’s Suffrage in the Early 20th Century
an era of Progressive activism in the state. Women joined with men to protest machine
politics and the monopolies held by railroads and public utilities. In Essex County,
preservation of the Palisades (1900).
believed that the press would be more likely to cover the club’s activities if it did not bear
them in their own language.
Flyer, Everett Colby, 1913
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