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A scrap of streamer in Blanche Castleman's yearbook from the October 17 suffrage parade in Boston. According to the Boston Globe, on the day of the parade, "antis" (those opposed to women's suffrage) prepared over 100,000 red "blushing" roses for…

Comprised of subcommittees dedicated to various social and political issues, the Social and Civic Club discussed topics ranging from immigration to Red Cross work. The 1918 Microcosm listed suffrage as one of the concerns the group addressed in its…

In the 1917 Class Will, student Gertrude Dunmore expressed a desire for the Social and Civic Club to persist in its “undying faith in Woman” after her graduation, and left the organization a suffrage banner. Dunmore’s bequest suggests that the Social…

A tongue-in-cheek poem from the 1910 Microcosm called "We Would Like to See" "“J. Van Liew Morris at a Suffragette Meeting” J. Van Liews was a physics and mathematics instructor.

This suffrage-themed advertisement for an Economics class at Simmons in 1914 suggests the presence of pro-suffrage faculty and students in the Household Economics department.

In an article about Boston’s suffrage parade on May 3, 1914, the Boston Globe reported that Simmons students were among the undergraduates who marched with the College Women’s Equal Suffrage League.

On October 17, 1915, over eight thousand suffragists marched through Boston in support of women’s voting rights. Simmons students, including Blanche Castleman, were among the college students in attendance.

Gertrude Barish, '19, addressed a suffrage committee in Boston and warned that Russian women would get the vote before American women. She was a sophomore at Simmons when she gave this speech.