[Hooker, Isabella B.]:

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, HELD AT HARTFORD, SEPTEMBER 9, 1870. REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE [wrapper title]. Rare copy of the Report of the Executive Committee for the second annual meeting of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA), founded just one year before, on October 28, 1869. Submitted and signed in type by the co-founder and chairman [sic] of the executive committee, Isabella Beecher Hooker, this report provides updates on the progress of the suffrage movement, both in Connecticut and nationwide. Also included are updates on movements in Great Britain and Europe, including a brief list of prominent figures in Britain supporting women's suffrage. There are excerpts from notable speeches and articles by John Stuart Mill, Francis W. Newman, and the reproduction of a letter from J.H. Howe, chief justice of Wyoming Territory, to Myra Bradwell, prominent Chicago lawyer and suffrage activist, explaining (despite his initial reservations) the success Wyoming courts have had in impaneling women as jurors (as part of the founding documents, Wyoming Territory granted suffrage to white women for all elections).The women's suffrage movement in America started gaining real strength in the 1840s with the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, convened in 1848. But the years leading up to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment grew the movement substantially. Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Frederick Douglass, Susa

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