A 1894 showdown between anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and temperance leader Frances E. Willard revealed the grip that racial resentment had over the American suffrage movement.

Each September, the Frances Willard House Museum marks Frances Willard’s birthday, Sept. 28, with special programs and tours that examine her model of leadership. In honor of the 150th ...

(The Conversation) — A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD'S PROJECT The Woman's Christian Temperance Union Convention in Session at Baltimore -- Hundreds of Delegates Present. Share full article Oct. 19, 1895 ...

Under her leadership, the WCTU advocated for women’s suffrage, lobbied for prison reform and campaigned for age-of-consent laws that were designed to raise the legal marriage age for women from ...

Frances Willard visited every state during this tour in 1883 and every city whose population was over 10,000 people. ... Her first suffrage speech was in 1876 where she spoke of “Home Protection”.

Frances Willard Munds stands tall among the statues and monuments on the east end of the Arizona Capitol. A suffragist, leader of the drive to give women the vote, and the state's first female ...

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