POLITICAL EQUALITY CLUB OF ST. PAUL
(MINN.):
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Political Equality Club of St. Paul (Minn.), creator. | |
| Title: | Club records. | |
| Dates: | 1910-1917. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | A minute book (1910-1917), a campaign committee record book (1914-1915), some correspondence and miscellany (1910-1916), and a historical sketch (1916) documenting a local women's organization devoted to the cause of female suffrage. | |
| Quantity: | 0.2 cubic feet (1 box, including 2 volumes). | |
| Location: | P2124 |
HISTORICAL NOTE
A St. Paul Suffrage Club was in existence as early as 1901. In 1904 the Mother's Club of the St. Paul Neighborhood House decided to join the suffrage movement and changed its name to the St. Paul Sacajawea Club. In 1907 it merged with the St. Paul Suffrage Club and, in 1911, changed its name to the St. Paul Political Equality Club. It was affiliated with the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association (See: Minutes, Jan. 29, 1914).
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Political Equality Club of St. Paul (Minn.). Club Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 4263; 4273
Processing Information:
Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, May 1996.
Catalog ID number: 990017334050104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| P2124 | 1 | Minute book, 1910-1917. 1 volume. | |||||||||
| Contains the minutes of the club from September 16, 1910 to February 22, 1917 and includes information on the election of officers, treasurer's reports, description of social activities, speakers at meetings, membership growth, amendments to the club's constitution and bylaws (December 21, 1911), election of delegates to the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association's conventions, and the appearance in the Twin Cities of suffrage leaders, in particular Sylvia Pankhurst and Charolotte Perkins Gilman. The minutes also reflect the club's participation in such aspects of community life as support of women's issues in the state legislature and the St. Paul City Council, detention facilities for girls, programs for delinquent youth, and furthering the cause of sports programs for girls (June 20, 1912). | |||||||||||
| Campaign Committee minute book, 1914-1915. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| Created by the club's Campaign Committee, which dealt with the production and distribution of a campaign circular that was made available to members and to the public. Included are minutes (December 29, 1914; January 5, 1915) and a fourteen-page list of associate members and their addresses (January - March 1915). | |||||||||||
| Correspondence and miscellany, 1910-1916. | |||||||||||
| One folder of items removed from the minute book (undated and 1910 - 1916) include treasurer's reports (undated and 1914); a flyer on women's suffrage successes in the United States (1914); a detailed letter from E. Cora Hurd (February 10, 1916) with background information on the Political Equality League movement in Manitoba, Canada; and a brief history of the St. Paul Political Equality Club (September 28, 1916) by Eugenia B. Farmer. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Female juvenile delinquents -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Girls -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Political participation -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Social action -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Social change -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Sports for women -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Voting -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Women -- Societies and clubs.
- Women -- Suffrage -- Manitoba.
- Women -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Societies and clubs.
- Women -- Suffrage -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Youth -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul.
- Persons:
- Farmer, Eugenia Berniaud, 1835-1924, author.
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935.
- Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association.
- Political Equality League (Man.)
- Sacajawea Club (Saint Paul, Minn.)
- Places:
- Canada -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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