Women's suffrage in South Carolina

Women's suffrage in South Carolina began as a movement in 1898, nearly 50 years after the women's suffrage movement began in Seneca Falls, New York.

Amongst the leading lights of the movement was Virginia Durant Young, a temperance campaigner who expanded her campaign to push for votes for women in South Carolina elections. Amongst the objections she attempted to argue against was a claim that, because polling booths were often located in bars, the act of voting would take women into unpleasant situations. Her former home is a preserved national monument.

References

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan Brownell Anthony; Matilda Joslyn (1922). History of Woman Suffrage. Original from Harvard University: Susan B. Anthony. p. 579.
• Underwood, James L. (1986). The Constitution of South Carolina: The struggle for political equality. South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 59–94. ISBN 978-0-87249-978-2.
• Edgar, Walter B. (1998). South Carolina: A History. South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 471–. ISBN 978-1-57003-255-4.
• Bass, Jack; Poole, W. Scott (5 June 2012). The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina. South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-61117-132-7.

External links

• Oral History Interview with Eulalie Salley at Oral Histories of the American South