VOLUME 21

NUMBER 02

September 2017

 

Editors: Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin
Published by Alexander Street Press and the
Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, SUNY Binghamton

 

| About the Journal | In This Issue |

DOCUMENT PROJECTS AND ARCHIVES

Why and How Did a Small Group of Maverick Abortion Providers Called the November Gang Come to Challenge Prevailing Conventions of Abortion Provision and What Were Their Innovations?
By Carole Joffe and Margaret Johnston
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

ADDITION TO EXISTING DOCUMENT PROJECT

Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920
By Jill Zahniser
| Updated Document List | Introduction to Supplementary Documents |

REFLECTIONS ON DOCUMENTS

Human rights discourse in women's rights conventions in the United States, 1848–70
By Kathryn Kish Sklar
| View Essay |

The Woman Suffrage Year Book, 1917: A Resource for Studying the Woman Suffrage Movement
By Gaylynn Welch
| View Essay |

NEW BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES IN THE BLACK WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS DATABASE

Alice Gertrude Baldwin
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Mary Mcleod Bethune
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Georgia Stewart Bond
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown
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Hallie Quinn Brown
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Nannie Helen Burroughs
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Grace Campbell
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Coralie Franklin Cook
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Myrtle Foster Cook
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Anna Julia Cooper
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Minnie Lou Crosthwait
Who's Who of the Colored Race| View Sketch |
Crowdsourced Sketch| View Sketch |

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar
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Mary E. Eato (also Eaton)
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Margaretta Forten
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Nellie Griswold Francis
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Susan Elizabeth Frazier
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Mary Campbell Mossell Griffin
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Victoria Clay Haley
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Addie D. Waites Hunton
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Harriet C. Johnson
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Anna H. Jones
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Verina Morton Jones
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Maria Coles Perkins Lawton
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Maritcha Remond Lyons
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May Martel
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Mary Jackson McCrorey
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Gertrude E.H. Bustill Mossell
Who's Who of the Colored Race | View Sketch |
Crowdsourced Sketch | View Sketch |

Jennie Dee Booth Moton
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Nancy Gardner Prince
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Harriet Forten Purvis
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Emma S. Ransom
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Florida Ruffin Ridley
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Myra Virginia Simmons
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Susan McKinney Steward
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Blanche Williams Stubbs
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Emma Belle Gibson Sykes
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Mary Burnett Talbert
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Lucy Thurman
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Margaret J. Murray Washington
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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NEW FULL-TEXT SOURCES IN THE BLACK WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS COLLECTION

May Martel
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Housewives Meet National Negro Congress
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Domestic Workers Demand 6-Day-Week
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Business and Professional Women Entertain Former Club President
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Club Heralds Achievements of Local Dentist at Dinner
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Leaders in Harlem Organize for Fight to Crush Burglars
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Afro-American Notes
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Afro-American Convention
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Kansas City, Kan.
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Mite Missionary Society
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Cosmopolitan Society Dinner
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Equal Suffrage League
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Women's Day at Bridge Street Church
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Y.W.C.A. Notes
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Advancement of Race Not Solved by Wealth
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Great Meeting Marks Close of Second Year
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Autobiography: First Negro Woman Delegate to a Political Convention
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In Dixie Land
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Miss Rankin Favors Universal Suffrage
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Woman's Emancipation
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Department of Legislation
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Colored Teachers
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Death of a Cultured Colored Woman
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Phillygrams, Saturday, May 16, 1925
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Editorial
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What Our Women Are Doing "Tomorrow"
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Some Afro-American Women of Mark
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Emma Gibson Sykes Suffrage Letter, Sunday Morning Star, April 4, 1920
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Blanche Stubbs Suffrage Letter, Evening Journal, February 23, 1915
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Alice G. Baldwin Letter to Portia M. Wiley, November 14, 1920
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Urges Free Ballot for Colored Women: Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson Speaks for Enlightened Use of the Franchise
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Untitled
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Letter to Editor
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Fifteenth Biennial Report; National Association of Colored Women, 1924-1926
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Women Builders
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Charles S. Johnson interview with Mary McLeod Bethune, ca. 1940
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Not Then, But Now
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Chautauqua Cullings
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Letter, Caroline R. Putnam to Wendell Phillips, 28 June 1874
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A Testimonial of Love Tendered Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, Right Worthy Grand Secretary-Treasurer, Independent Order of Saint Luke--Twenty Five Years of Service
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Editorials
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'Brickbats and Roses': Lucy Diggs Slowe, 1883-1937
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Well Known Artist Died Last Night
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Mrs. Daniel Moss Passed Away Today
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Along the Color Line: Music and Art
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Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett Calls on President McKinley--That Lake City, S.C., Lynching the Cause
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The Use of Prose in Domestic Tragedy
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Excerpt, Sixth Annual Report of the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls
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Woman's Suffrage: A Potent Agency in Public Reforms
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NATIONAL CONSUMERS' LEAGUE DOCUMENTS IN FULL-TEXT SOURCES

List of Bulletins of National Consumers' League and Descriptions of Contents
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Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, New York City, December 11, 1934, Report of Lucy Randolph Mason, General Secretary
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Resolutions Passed at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting, December 11, 1934, Allerton House
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Resolutions Adopted at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, December 11, 1934
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National Consumers' League, Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, For the Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 1934
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Minutes, National Consumers' League, Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Council, December 11, 1934
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Bulletin, National Consumers' League, October 1934
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National Consumers' League, Proposed Budget for 1934-35
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Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, December 11, 1934, Ballot
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Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Allerton House, New York City, December 13, 1933, Report of Lucy Randolph Mason, General Secretary
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Resolutions Adopted at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, December 13, 1933
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Minutes of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, December 13, 1933 - 10:00 A.M.
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Invitation, Annual Luncheon of the National Consumers' League and Consumers' League of New York, December 13, 1933
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National Consumers' League, Meeting of the Council, December 13, 1933
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Minutes, Thirty-Second Annual Luncheon Meeting of the National Consumers' League, November 24, 1931
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Tuesday Afternoon, December 12, 1933
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National Consumers' League, Proposed Budget for 1933
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Ballot, 1933-34, National Consumers' League
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Resolutions Adopted at the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League (draft)
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Resolutions Adopted at the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League
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National Consumers' League, Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, For the Period November 1, 1931 through October 31, 1932
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Program, Memorial Meeting in Honor of Florence Kelley, March 16, 1932
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Invitation, Annual Luncheon of the National Consumers' League and Consumers' League of New York, December 13, 1932
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Editorial--The 81 Hour Week
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Minutes of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, December 13, 1932
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting, National Consumers' League, Morning Session, December 12, 1932
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting of National Consumers' League, Monday Afternoon Session, December 12, 1932
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National Consumers' League, Meeting of the Council, December 13, 1932
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National Consumers' League, Proposed budget for 1932
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Ballot, National Consumers' League, Election, December 14, 1932
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National Consumers' League, Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements, For the Period November 1, 1930 to October 31, 1931
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Resolutions, Passed at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, November 1931
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Resolutions, Passed at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Council of the National Consumers' League, November 24, 1931
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Minutes, National Consumers' League, Annual Meeting of the Council, November 23rd and 24th, 1931
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Tuesday Morning, December 12, 1933
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Invitation, National Consumers' League, Thirty-Second Annual Luncheon, November 14, 1931
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National Consumers' League, Proposed Budget for 1931
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Ballot, National Consumers' League, Election November 24, 1931, Approved by Board of Directors November 6, 1931
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Report of the Secretary, National Consumers' League, 1930
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Resolutions, Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Council of the National Consumers' League, November 1930
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Proceedings, Annual Luncheon of the National Consumers' League, November 15, 1930
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting, National Consumers' League, November 14, 1930
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Invitation, National Consumers' League Thirty-First Annual Meeting, November 14-15, 1930
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Minutes, National Consumers' League, Annual Meeting of The Council, November 14th and 15th, 1930, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Friday Morning Session, November 15, 1929
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting,National Consumers' League, Thursday Afternoon Session, November 14, 1929
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Minutes, National Consumers' League Council Meeting, November 16, 1929
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Program, Luncheon of the National Consumers' League, Thirtieth Anniversary, November 1929
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Program, Thirtieth Anniversary, National Consumers' League, November 14-16, 1929
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Minutes, National Consumers' League, Thirtieth Anniversary Luncheon, November 1929
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Program of the Annual Meeting, National Consumers' League, November 15-16, 1928
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting, National Consumers' League, November 1928
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Minutes, Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Tuesday Morning Session, November 29, 1927
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Minutes, Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Tuesday Afternoon Session, November 29, 1927
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Memorandum, [1928]
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Program, Annual Dinner of the National Consumers' League, November 15, 1928
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Invitation, Annual Dinner of the National Consumers' League, November 15, 1928
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Report of the Consumers' League Western Pennsylvania, November 1927
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Resolutions, Adopted at the twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the National Consumers League -- November 29, 1927
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Program of the Annual Meeting, National Consumers League, November 28-29, 1927
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Report of the Consumers' League of Ohio, 1927
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Report of the Consumers' League of New York City, November 1927
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Minutes, Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Monday Morning Session, November 28, 1927
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Minutes, Annual Meeting of the National Consumers' League, Banquet Session, November 28, 1927
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Minutes, Annual Meeting, National Consumers' League, Monday Afternoon Session, November 28, 1927
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Report of the Consumers' League of New Jersey, 1927
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Report of the Consumers' League of Massachusetts, November 1927
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Report of the Consumers' League of Kentucky, November 1927
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Program of the Annual Meeting, National Consumers League, November 28-29, 1927
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Invitation, Annual Dinner of the National Consumers' League, November 1927
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Report of the Consumers' League of Delaware, 1927
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Report of the Consumers' League of Cincinnati--1927
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Program of the Annual Meeting, National Consumers League, November 29-30, 1926
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Proceedings, Annual Meeting, National Consumers' League, November 29-30, 1926, Allerton Hotel, Cleveland Ohio
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BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Eleanor Roosevelt. Vol.3, The War Years and After, 1939-1962
By Blanche Wiesen Cook (New York: Viking, 2016. 570 pp. Hardback, $40.00, ISBN: 9780670023950).
Reviewed by Mary Jo Binker, George Washington University

Review of Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality
By Marcia Walker-McWilliams (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 266 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-0-252-08199-6).
Reviewed by Carol F. Cini, De Anza College

Review of The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
By A. L. Sittig and M. F. González (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 216 pp. Price $24.95, ISBN-13:978-0-8032-8461-6).
Reviewed by Andrea Gómez Cervantes, University of Kansas

Review of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
By Sarah Haley (University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 360 pp. Cloth $27.00, ISBN 978-1469627590).
Reviewed by Annulla Linders, University of Cincinnati

Review of Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
By Motoe Sasaki (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 240pp. Hardcover, $45.00, ISBN: 978-0-8014-5139-3).
Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb, University of Tampa

Review of Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice
By Ryan Patrick Murphy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2016. 237 pp. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4399-0989-8).
Reviewed by John Olszowka, Mercyhurst University

Review of The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer
By Bonnie S. Anderson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 264 pp. Paper, $34.95, ISBN:9780199756247).
Reviewed by Stephanie J. Richmond, Norfolk State University

Review of Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s-1940s
By Enaya Hammad Othman (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. 242 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN: 9781498509237).
Reviewed by Nova Robinson, Seattle University

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