Wikipedia:GLAM/Washington State Historical Society/Events and Workshops/Edits for Women 2020

THE MARCH 21, 2020 EVENT AT THE WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COVID-19

Posting signs to promote woman suffrage, Washington Equal Suffrage Association, Seattle, 1910 (CURTIS 1185)

Something we learned from our previous session is, folks want to jump in and start editing! So, for this edit-a-thon we will be working together to overhaul one page

Women's suffrage movement in Washington (state).

Event is free, but registration required! Bring your own laptops - Wikimedian experts and yummy snacks provided!

Chapters that need to be written

First Wave: 1850-1870 The Women's Rights Movement Comes to Washington State

• 18 yr Catherine Paine attends the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and is the youngest signer of the Declaration of Sentiments. Soon after, she moves to Seattle with her minister husband, establishes a Methodist church and school. Receives news of the women's suffrage movement and befriends early territorial legislator Arthur Denny
• Arthur A. Denny proposes white woman's suffrage and loses by one vote.
• Create small bio for Catherine Paine Blaine page

Second Wave: 1870-1900 Washington Women Attempt to Vote

• Using the 14th Amendment and the citizenship argument to challenge election officials, sisters Mary Olney Brown and Charlotte Olney French attempt to vote in Thurston County elections.
• Write about Edward Eldridge's bill striking 'male' from the record
• Link to stubs of Mary Olney Brown and Charlotte Olney French. Build small bios of each woman.
• Tell the story of the first successful vote of women at Littlerock and Grand Mound. List women who voted and sources.

Susan B Anthony Tours Washington

• Summarize the tour of Susan B. Anthony in Washington, adding a map of places she touched down, links to her diary entries from the trip, links to newspaper article sources.
• Link to Abigail Scott Duniway page
• Add summary of Susan B. Anthony tour to the Abigail Scott Duniway page
• Write about Susan B. Anthony's address to Washington Territorial Legislature
• Write about the formation of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association
• Write about the anti-suffrage law of Washington Territory established in 1871

Voting Rights Won and Lost, Twice in 5 years

• Write about the victory of women getting the vote in 1883 and public reaction
• What women did with the vote over four years
• Write about losing the vote again in 1887, getting it back in 1888 and losing it again that same year
• Write about Nevada Bloomer case
• Write about 1889 Constitutional Convention and the disintegration of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association by 1905

Third Wave: 1906-1910 Women Organize

• Write about the resurrection of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association by Emma Smith DeVoe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Dr. Cora Eaton Smith, and May Arkwright Hutton
• Write about organization tactics (Washington Women's Cookbook, posters and publications - Missouri Hannah, Nettie Craig Asberry) and "still hunt" strategy of Emma Smith DeVoe and May Arkwright Hutton
• Write about Alaska Yukon Exposition and Mt. Rainier mountaineering suffragists
• Write about 1909 victory (Include links to primary sources: telegrams, letter from Horace Cayton congratulating Emma Smith DeVoe, newspaper articles)

Washington Wins and Ratifies

• Write about suffrage 5-star flag sent to California (use photographs and postcard with suffrage song as primary source) and reaction in national suffrage movement newspapers after Washington win
• Write about how Washington became the 35th state to ratify the 19th Amendment on March 22, 1920.