Woman Candidate Ruled Off Ballot

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Woman Candidate Ruled Off Ballot
Creator:: New York Times
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1920-10-24
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
People:: Brooks, Ida Joe
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: articles
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Article from the New York Times regarding Arkansas Attorney General John Arbuckle's ruling that even though women had the right to vote, they could not run for public office.
Women -- Suffrage -- Politics and Government -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
WATCH SUFFRAGE RULINGS Interpretation of Women's Rights in Elections to be Guarded. Announcement was made yesterday that the National American Woman Suf- frage Association was watching all legal proceedings in States affected by the Nineteenth Amendment so that all doubts regarding the participation of women in the November elections would be removed. Attorney General Arbuckle of Arkan- sas telegraphed Mrs. Carnic Chapman Catt, President of the association, yes- terday that in his opinion women were not eligible to hold office in Arkansas, and that the Arkansas Secretary of State had declined to accept the certi- fication of Dr. Ida Joe Brooks as the Re- publican candidate for the State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction. In Massachusetts tje Ballot Law Com- mission has decided that American wo- men married to alliens prior to March, 1907, when Congress passed the law re- quiring married women to take the citi- zenship of their husbands, may retain their citizenship. Attorney General J. Weston Allen of Massachusetts has de- cided that women are elegible for ser- vice as election officials and have the right to sign nominating petitions. Attorney General Frank M. McAllister of Missouri has given a decision that women will not be obliged to cast their votes separately from men and declaring the law, passed by the Missouri Legis- lature to require them to vote on pink ballots, to violate the principle of se- crecy. Attorney General McAllister de- cided, however, that women are not eligible as candidates for the Legislature and that the four women nominated are not eligible to serve. The Missoury law requires that a member of the Legisla- ture must be a male voter and a voter for two years before the election. The New York Time Published: October 24, 1920 Copyright © The New York Times
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/314
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:314/manifest.json
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Original Collection:: New York Times, October 24, 1920
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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