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  1. Potential Danger for Prohibition

    Date(s): January 31, 1920 Location: New York, New York Tag(s): Temperance Movement, women's rights, Prohibition, woman's suffrage 

    In 1920 Linton Smith, also known as the Bishop of Hereford, wrote a controversial article on the Temperance Movement and Prohibition. Linton claimed that prohibition could possibly divide political parties on a, “Sex basis," meaning that female prohibition proponents could vote as a block against male opponents of prohibition. Strong drink was very popular in the lives of men during the time. In...

  2. More to the WCTU than Meets the Eye

    Date(s): 1883 Location: SUFFOLK, Massachusetts Tag(s): Temperance Movement, Temperance, woman's suffrage 

    In a letter to a temperance friend in the late 1800’s Francis Parkman, a Temperance supporter, called a woman who was part of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union out on what he thought the Temperance Movement was about. He writes to the woman saying that temperance was nothing more than, “A wedge to universal woman suffrage”. In the late 1800‘s people began to become concerned with the...

  3. Sarah C. Owen Addresses the Rochester 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention

    Date(s): August 2, 1848 Location: MONROE, New York Tag(s): Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth McClintock, Amy Post, woman's rights, woman's suffrage 

    A little less than a month after the Seneca Falls Convention, the Convention that sparked the woman’s rights movement, a Woman’s Rights Convention was held on August 2, 1848 in Rochester, New York at the Unitarian Church to continue the work done at Seneca Falls. The Woman’s Rights Convention in Rochester was planned by Amy Post, Sarah Hallowell, Sarah Fish, and Sarah C. Owen because there was...