The Alice Freeman Palmer Society Suffrage Meeting

This newspaper clipping documents a suffrage meeting held by the Alice Freeman Palmer Society. Members answered roll call with "Militant Mary" slogans and quotations before faculty women delivered speeches on women's voting rights. The society, named after the Wellesley College president and educator, organized public advocacy during the final years before the 19th Amendment. Newspaper society pages and meeting announcements like this one served as primary records of women's political organizing in the Progressive Era, appearing regularly in dailies and Sunday editions alongside comics and entertainment.