Equality League of Self-Supporting Women

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The Equality League of Self-Supporting Women was a New York–based suffrage organization that mobilized wage-earning and working-class women into the fight for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century.

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instanceOf political advocacy group
suffrage organization
women's rights organization
activeInDecade 1900s
1910s
activity mobilizing wage-earning women for suffrage
outreach to working-class communities
political organizing
public campaigning for women's voting rights
advocacyType grassroots organizing
political advocacy
aimedTo bridge suffrage and labor concerns
basedIn New York City
classFocus wage earners
working class
country United States of America
focus laboring women's political participation
voting rights for women
women's suffrage
working-class women's rights
genderFocus women
goal expanding political rights for working women
increasing working-class women's participation in the suffrage movement
securing the vote for women
historicalContext pre-19th Amendment suffrage campaigns in the United States
ideology feminism
languageOfWork English
location New York City
movement progressive era reform movements
women's suffrage movement in the United States
nonProfitStatus nonprofit organization
notableCharacteristic emphasis on self-supporting women rather than elite women
operatingArea New York City
New York
surface form: New York State
opposedTo denial of voting rights to women
political exclusion of working women
organizationalFocus linking wage-earning women's issues with suffrage
politicalIssue democratic representation
women's voting rights
sector civil society
socialClassBase wage-earning women
working-class women
state New York
targetMembership self-supporting women
wage-earning women
working-class women
timePeriod early 20th century
typeOfOrganization membership organization

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Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch founded Equality League of Self-Supporting Women