REJECT THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY AMENDMENT. WOMEN SUFFRAGE IN ACTION! WOULD SOUTHERN MEN APPROVE OF THIS? VOTES FOR WOMEN MEANS JURY DUTY OF WOMEN
Raleigh, North Carolina: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. The “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” granting women the right to vote became the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in August 1920. This anti-suffrage broadside was directed toward Southern men and warned that “suffrage states” require women to abandon their sick children while serving on juries. As an example, during “a big I.W.W. murder trial” in Seattle in 1917, juror number 11, Mrs. Timmer, learned her children had contracted measles. The judge refused to excuse her form the jury and assured her, “Don’t let your attention be attracted by anything but the trial. We’ll keep you advised, and you will have no cause to worry. Remember, no news is good news.”
Broadside: single 8” x 12” sheet printed on the recto only. The text is printed in two columns beneath the caption title. Near fine. Three copies recorded in OCLC at the University of Rochester, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Item #74638
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