2 10 106 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/7d7c96db646567b7710aa21240ee4a86.jpg 11409604db76530dd0b4f682c2a5820b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Our Chief Concern" Description An account of the resource In her essay “Our Chief Concern,” published in the Journal of Education in 1906, Arnold argued for the importance of individual attention in schools for all children, including young girls. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Louise Arnold Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Journal of Education Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/b8cb665001d30e9d768f4276913b9be1.png 8f5f78cb708675a6c123083bb3fd3b07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Arnold Primer Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Louise Arnold Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Silver, Burdett and Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1901 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/e6443cb4aa4b50b4f6ef6566f388d871.png a345515342f3a7097e8aabc713697602 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother Tongue II Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Louise Arnold and George Lyman Kittredge Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ginn and Company Publishers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/a110f956a0965fd865615bfed92cbe2a.png b8315ba0b6f247802f4feab04c5dcf57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reading: How to Teach It Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Louise Arnold Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Silver, Burdett and Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/bcf167a3cc9f8aa411d7a8493f4855bc.png aeff7b29239770251e524aeb36bfd44a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource With Pencil and Pen: Language Lessons for Primary School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Louise Arnold Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/591dfe1865726e290da41ecb11e45eec.png b7a315fc3ca56388fcd54d07f25313d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource President Lefavour and Dean Arnold Description An account of the resource The first Simmons yearbook, published in 1906, featured these side-by-side portraits of College President Henry Lefavour and Dean Sarah Louise Arnold. Lefavour and Arnold had a contentious relationship, as Lefavour made his anti-suffrage views known and Arnold was a vocal supporter of women’s rights. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Microcosm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Simmons University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/7fd6603a5b87fd75a530abfeb8b1e405.jpg f0cc0c5eab44e76632a9e168b3d3f468 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fanny Baker Ames Trustee Description An account of the resource Fanny Baker Ames was born Julia Frances Baker in 1840 in Canandaigua, New York to Increase Baker, a coal measurer, and Julia (Canfield) Baker. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio when Fanny was a child, and she completed one term at Antioch College in 1857 before spending the next five years teaching in the Cincinnati Public Schools. She left her teaching position during the Civil War to work as a volunteer nurse in military hospitals. In 1863, Baker married Charles Gordon Ames, a newspaper editor and Unitarian minister. The couple had four children, one of whom died in infancy. Charles’s health and employment were precarious, and the family moved frequently so that he could take the fresh air of California or lead congregations in Boston and Pennsylvania. Wherever they went, Charles looked for opportunities to engage in charity work and reform activities, and his enthusiasm for social causes sparked Fanny’s own interest in helping others and agitating for women’s rights. The couple also shared a commitment to women’s suffrage, and in 1869, they attended the founding convention of Lucy Stone’s American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The following year, they helped establish California’s first state suffrage association, though they soon withdrew when the organization chose to align itself with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) instead of AWSA. When Ames and her family moved to Philadelphia for the first time in the early 1870s, she devoted her attention to the founding and directing of the Relief Society of Germantown, a charity organization dedicated to aiding Pennsylvania’s poor. She was particularly interested in the welfare of poor children, and headed the first board of directors of Philadelphia’s Children’s Aid Society and Bureau of Information in 1883, traveling the state to place orphaned children in country homes. By 1888, the Ames family had settled permanently in Boston, though Ames frequently traveled to meetings and events in Philadelphia for much of her life. While in Boston, she held various positions in the Massachusetts and New England Suffrage Associations and served as President of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government. She was elected to the Boston School Committee in 1896, serving for three years. Ames was also employed for seven years as the first woman factory inspector in Massachusetts, reporting to the Massachusetts District Police Department of Inspection. Ames traveled through Boston and Worcester, observing factories, laundries, and workshops, and issuing citations to employers who failed to comply with child labor laws and workplace safety standards, especially for women workers. In 1897, however, Ames was forced to resign from her position when representatives from a working women’s union protested her reappointment, accusing her of notifying employers of inspection dates before her arrival, overlooking labor law violations, and continuing to accept her full salary while on an extended trip to Europe. Despite these allegations, Ames remained a respected figure in Boston for her reform efforts, and in 1900, she was invited to join the Committee on Organization of the newly founded Simmons College, shaping the College’s mission and development in her role as a founding trustee. In addition to her suffrage and government work, Ames was known as an active clubwoman and reformer in both Philadelphia and Boston. She was a founding member and, later, President, of Philadelphia’s New Century Club, a women’s reform organization, and was also involved in the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends. In Boston, she attended meetings of the Round Table social reform discussion group and, as a life member of the American Unitarian Association, was active in Boston’s Church of the Disciples. Ames also served on the National Council of Women’s Committee on Divorce Reform and held membership in the Anti-Imperialist League, a group founded in 1898 to protest the Spanish-American War. Ames died of a heart complaint and nephritis at her summer home in Yarmouth, Massachusetts in August of 1931. She is buried beside her husband in Minneapolis. Ames was honored with a well-attended memorial service at the Church of the Disciples shortly after her death, and is still remembered for her contributions to social service work. One of her daughters, Alice Ames Winter, carried on her mother’s activist spirit, serving as President of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in the 1920s. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Fanny Baker Ames Papers. Schlesinger Library in the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute. https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/8312 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/4adbdacb8784af8942c14c3cdf37bd92.png 956273305a5268b8489fd45da4e67a06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Caroline Crawford '07 Description An account of the resource Mary Caroline Crawford was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1874 to James Crawford, a laundry worker, and Mary (Coburn) Crawford. She graduated from the Boston Girls’ Latin School in 1892 and went on to attend Radcliffe College between 1894 and 1897. Though financial hardship forced her to drop out before finishing her degree, Crawford’s social and intellectual engagement at Radcliffe meant that her classmates always considered her a member of the 1898 class. In 1899, the death of her father left Crawford the sole provider for her mother and younger brother. She became a journalist, writing special features and editorials for the Boston Transcript and working as the literary editor of the Boston Budget until 1902. She remained a frequent contributor to a variety of newspapers and periodicals for much of her life, often writing about international affairs and women laborers and advocating for equal pay and world peace. In the midst of her journalistic career, she also pursued a course in social work at the Boston School for Social Workers, then a collaboration between Simmons College and Harvard University. She graduated in 1907 and immediately founded Boston’s Social Service Publicity Bureau, serving as Financial and Publicity Counselor and Promoter of Welfare Organizations. Crawford also became interested in women’s labor rights and trade unions during this time, and briefly worked as a secretary for the Boston chapter of the Women’s Trade Union League, advocating on behalf of women bindery strikers. Among social workers and reformers, Crawford was best known for her work as Executive Secretary of the Ford Hall Forum between 1908 and 1921. In this role, she organized weekly Sunday gatherings for workers and their families and facilitated discussions about labor rights and unionization. She later conducted a similar program at the Old South Meeting House, where she was Executive Secretary until 1932. Between her journalistic pursuits and social reform projects, Crawford also gained national attention as an author and social historian, publishing nearly a book a year between 1902 and 1914. Her most well-known work was The College Girl of America (1904), in which she encouraged college-educated women to pursue fulfilling careers after graduation. Many of her other books devoted special attention to the experiences of women in early New England or in literary history. Her book Goethe and His Woman Friends (1911) necessitated a trip to Germany in 1910, during which Crawford researched the women who influenced the famous writer. In addition to her literary and social work, Crawford was involved in politics and club activism for much of her life. A Boston Globe reporter described her as “an ardent suffragist” in 1911, and she continued to advocate for women politically even after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, supporting women’s right to serve on a jury in a Women’s City Club debate in 1928. Crawford held membership in the Boston Authors Club and the Monday Evening Club for Social Workers, and was a founding member of the Boston Quota Club. In her later years, she described herself as a Wilsonian Democrat and admitted to “heckling senators…sometimes by letter.” She was also a lifelong Episcopalian, working on a national campaign to raise awareness for the church in 1919 and 1920. Crawford died suddenly in November of 1932. Delegations from various clubs attended her funeral, remembering her for her social, political, and literary contributions to the city of Boston. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Boston Globe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 12, 1911 https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/64a89920d20de419f7362bd2a2694f4c.png 09e1e4c1f640b7043c7a3434bc42d6df Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Katharine Lent Stevenson Namesake of the Katharine Lent Stevenson Memorial Fund Description An account of the resource Katharine Lent (sometimes spelled Lente) was born in Copake, New York in 1853 to Marvin Richardson Lent, a Methodist minister, and Hannah (Louzada) Lent. She attended Amenia Seminary in New York, graduating as valedictorian in 1875. She went on to earn a degree from Boston University’s School of Theology in 1881, where she was the only woman in her class. Lent married James Stevenson, a Boston merchant, around 1882, and became stepmother to his three young daughters. Katharine had been involved in the temperance movement since the age of fourteen, when she had joined the International Order of Good Templars in New York. She became a member of the Allston-Brighton branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1887, when she was serving as an associate pastor at the Allston Methodist Episcopal Church. The position was short-lived, as Stevenson was terminated after the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church refused to recognize women as preachers, but her WCTU connections offered her new opportunities. She was appointed the Suffolk County Superintendent of Evangelistic Work for the WCTU around 1887, and then elected Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts WCTU in 1891. Her devotion to the cause earned her a position as Corresponding Secretary of the National WCTU in 1893, an office she occupied for five years. Soon after her election to the National WCTU, Stevenson took on another role in the temperance movement, moving briefly to Chicago to work as an editor in the Department of Books and Leaflets at the Woman’s Temperance Publishing Association. During this time, she also published her book A Brief History of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1907), and served as a contributing editor to the WCTU periodical the Union Signal, writing frequent articles about women’s rights and social reform. Stevenson returned to Boston in 1898 to accept a position as President of the Massachusetts WCTU, serving for the next twenty years. While working for the Massachusetts WCTU, Stevenson also became active in the World’s WCTU, serving as Superintendent of its Promotion of Good Citizenship Department between 1907 and 1910 and overseeing its World Missionary Fund until 1913. In 1908, she took a leave of absence from her Massachusetts WCTU work so she could travel the world as a temperance missionary, visiting schools and churches in Hawaii, China, New Zealand, and India, among other places. She spoke about her experiences in a Boston Globe interview in 1910, condemning the “influence of western civilization in spreading the drink and cigarette habits” to other countries. At home as well as abroad, Stevenson was a staunch Prohibitionist, often writing in support of a federal Prohibition amendment and attending hearings on temperance legislation at the Massachusetts State House. For Stevenson, a member of the Massachusetts Equal Suffrage League, the temperance cause was inextricably linked to the struggle for women’s voting rights. In 1914, Stevenson penned an essay arguing that corrupt politicians associated with the liquor trade knew that “with universal woman suffrage the doom of the organized, legalized, liquor traffic is sealed,” and therefore continued to deny women the vote in an effort to maintain their own power. In 1918, Stevenson retired as President of the Massachusetts WCTU and returned to the National WCTU, where she became Superintendent of Americanization. She held this position until March of 1919, when she died suddenly while on a trip to Des Moines, Iowa. Shortly after her death, her colleagues at the Massachusetts WCTU established the Katharine Lent Stevenson Memorial Fund at Simmons in her honor, citing the College’s vocational mission as one Stevenson would have admired. They asked each WCTU member to donate twenty cents to the fund, one for each year of Stevenson’s term as President. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Internet Archive https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/files/original/ff2e6445440112242505242f031b8209.jpg 95a99dfd794f2ba1c9ea9286f021d4f2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melnea A. (Jones) Cass Honorary Degree Recipient, 1971 Description An account of the resource Melnea Cass was born Melnea Agnes Jones in Richmond, Virginia, in 1896. Her mother was a domestic worker and her father was a janitor. Her mother died when Melnea was young, and Melnea and her sisters moved to Boston to live with their Aunt Ella. Cass attended the Boston Public Schools until she was in high school, when her aunt, recognizing her niece’s academic skill, sent her back to Virginia to attend St. Francis de Sales Convent School, a Catholic school for Black and Native American girls. Cass graduated as valedictorian of her class in 1914. After graduation, Cass returned to Boston, hoping to find work as a salesgirl. She soon found, however, that few of the city’s department stores hired Black employees, and was forced to take a job as a domestic worker instead. In 1917, she married Marshall Cass, a soldier, and gave birth to the first of their three children while her husband was away serving in World War I. When the war was over, the Cass family moved to Roxbury and Melnea embarked on what would become a lifetime of civil rights work and other political activism. In 1920, after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Cass canvassed in her Roxbury neighborhood, registering Black women to vote for the first time. Around this time, she also joined the NAACP, attending lectures and drawing inspiration from the writings and speeches of civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter. Cass’s involvement in the NAACP prompted her to work against racism in Boston, attending protests calling for equal employment opportunities in the retail and medical fields. She also worked as a secretary for the Northeastern Region of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and helped form both the Boston chapter of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Freedom House, a community center that worked to help Black Bostonians. From 1962 to 1964, Cass served as president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, persuading the city to hold annual Crispus Attucks and Frederick Douglass commemorations and overseeing early protests against the Boston School Committee’s segregation policy. She remained on the board of the NAACP after her tenure as president and was involved in the filing of the lawsuit that led to court-ordered busing in Boston in the 1970s. From the 1930s, Cass became known in Boston for her community organizing work, a reputation that earned her the nickname “the First Lady of Roxbury.” During her long career as an activist, she volunteered at the Robert Gould Shaw settlement house, joined the Harriet Tubman Mothers’ Club and the Sojourner Truth Club, and led efforts to establish a local kindergarten for Black children. In 1950 she was appointed a charter member of Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), an organization that assisted residents who had been displaced by urban renewal efforts. She also served as president of the Women’s Service Club in the 1960s, leading a job training program for recent immigrants, and was Chair of the Massachusetts Advisory Committee for the Elderly from 1975 to 1976. During her lifetime, Cass was often honored for contributions to the Boston community, receiving honorary degrees from Northeastern University (1969), Simmons College (1971), and Boston College (1975). In 1966, Boston Mayor John Volpe declared May 22 Melnea Cass Day in honor of her seventieth birthday. The city also honored her as a “Grand Bostonian” at a ceremonial dinner in 1977. Cass died in 1978 and is buried in Roslindale. Melnea Cass Boulevard in Boston was named for her in 1981, and several community centers also bear her name. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Melnea A. Cass Papers Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections https://archivesspace.library.northeastern.edu/repositories/2/resources/845 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1954-1979