- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Women's Suffrage Does Not Extend to Black Women
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1912-04-20
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- New York Times article describing debate within and between various Arkansas women's organizations, and how the attempt to gain female suffrage would be influenced by questions of race.
Racism -- Civil Rights -- Women's Suffrage -- Women -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Augusta (Ark.) -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
WOULD BAR NEGRO WOMEN. Race Issue Raised in the Fight for Suffrage in Arkansas Special to The New York Times. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 19.- Agita- tion for women suffrage in this State has brought forth a new phase of that prob- lem- the race issue. Those who are seek- ing the influence of woment for an amend- ment to the State Constitution to provide for the extension of the ballot have been met with arguments that such a measure would again bring to the front the negro question. Prominent women and men high in politics are therefore exerting pressure to balk the suffragists. An instance of the feeling was given at a recent meeting of a district federation fo women's clubs at Augusta. Members of the club which was entertaining the convention arranged a table covered with suffragist literature and a group of pic- tures of leaders in the movement. Other members, however, insisted on the re- moval of the pictures and literature, de- claring that they did not intend to have the negro women of the country placed on an equality with them, politically or otherwise. When a set of resolutions was brought forward in the convention declaring for woman suffrage twenty delegates refused to vote, and of the nine who did vote four were agains the measure. In consequence of this feeling the pro- posed amendment to the Constitution, for which petitions are being circulated, has been so worded as to bring the negro women under the same conditions as the negro men, most of whom are barred by the "grandfather clause." It reads: "Female persons shall have the same right to vote as male persons now have or shall hereafter have under the Constitu- tion and laws of this State." It is proposed to put this amendment before the voters of the State at the com- ing election by the use of initiative. Peti- tions are being circulated among voters by the leaders of the agitation, and they hope to have 12,800 signatures by May 8, when the time for filing will expire. The New York Times Published: April 20, 1912 - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/357
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:357/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- The New York Times
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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