Steve Test

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• The Coalwood Way
• Woody Plants of West Virginia in Winter Condition
• Tomten and the Fox
• Walden
• Fanny & Alexander
• The Shining
• Little Women
• The Thing
• The Winter's Tale
• Brian's Winter
• [Untitled]
• Suffrage Fan
  Handheld fan with text and imagery in support of women's suffrage.
• Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC
  The beginning of the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, DC, on March 13, 1913.
• Jericho Brown photo
  photo of Jericho Brown by Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36832145
• Coralie Franklin Cook
  Coralie Franklin Cook was born into slavery in Lexington, Virginia, in 1861, a descendent of the Hemings family that was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson. She was a trained educator, a noted public speaker, a community leader, and a suffragist. Franklin Cook graduated from Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1880. She studied and went on to teach English and Elocution at Storer from 1882 to 1893. She married Geore William Cook, a professor at Howard University. Cook went on to teach at Howard as well and later the Washington Conservatory of Music. Active in civic life in Washington, DC, she was the second Black woman to serve on the District of Columbia Board of Education, serving for twelve years. An early participant in clubs for Black women in the DC area, Coralie Franklin Cook was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) formed in 1896. Women’s suffrage was an important issue for the NACW but not its single focus. Suffrage was viewed as means to improve lives of all Black people living in segregation and linked to ensuring voting rights for Black men who were disenfranchised through literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses. She was also a member of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the dominant suffrage organization in the United States. While the NAWSA admitted Black women, they held conventions in which Black women were excluded and forced Black women to march separately in suffrage parades. Cook was the only Black woman invited to speak at Susan B. Anthony’s 80th birthday celebration in 1900. She offered her disappointment in the lack of concern for Black women’s rights stating, “...no woman and no class of women can be degraded and all women kind not suffer thereby.” In 1915, Coralie Franklin Cook wrote a piece entitled “Votes for Mothers” in a suffrage-themed issue of the NAACP magazine, the Crisis. Although questioning the focus on the motherly role of women, Cook noted that the ability to “make and administer the laws under which she lives” would assist women in their maternal duties. She further emphasized suffrage for women of color noting that, “Disfranchisement [sic] because of sex is curiously like disfranchisement because of color. It cripples the individual, it handicaps progress, it sets a limitation upon mental and spiritual development.” Cook lived to see the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 and continued to serve her DC community
• Ada Haldeman Ford
  Ada Haldeman Ford was born in Minnesota in 1883. Six years later her family moved back to their native West Virginia. Ada attended Fairmont Normal School, receiving her teacher’s certificate at the age of sixteen. Later she worked in several positions in the offices of the Circuit Court, County Clerk, and Prosecuting Attorney in Taylor county. In 1909, she married Taylor County Prosecuting Attorney Gene W. Ford. Ada Ford was instrumental in organizing the Women’s Suffrage movement in West Virginia. She was one of the five women on the State Board which conducted the campaign for the 19th amendment. She was founder and President of the Women’s Suffrage League in Taylor County. After the ratification of the 19th amendment, Ada worked in the Democratic Party to organize women voters. She served three terms on the State Executive Committee for the party. She continued to be involved in public service through civic and faith-based organizations throughout her life Ada Haldeman Ford died in 1979.
• Clarksburg Daily Telegram Woman Suffrage Edition
  Special edition of the Clarksburg Daily Telegram devoted to women's suffrage. Features Carrie Chapman Catt and Lenna Lowe Yost on the cover.
• WVU Suffrage League
  Group photograph in the 1920 WVU Monticola Yearbook of the University Suffrage League established in March 1916.
• Samuel Young
  Carte de visite portrait of Samuel Young.
• "He's On His Way" Cartoon
  Cartoon in the Wheeling Intelligencer about State Senator Jesse Bloch's travel back to the state to vote on ratification.
• "The Long, Long Ride of Senator Bloch" Poem
  Poem about Senator Bloch's journey across the country to vote for ratification of the 19th amendment. Written by R. Ad Hall and published in the Weston Independent newspaper.
• Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to State Senator Harvey Harmer
  Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt thanking WV State Senator Harvey Harmer for the ratification of the 19th amendment in the state. She also remarked that the story of the 14 senators waiting for the return of Senator Jesse Bloch had captured the attention of people around the world.
• Telegram Congratulating Lenna Lowe Yost
  Telegram from R. F. Dunlap of Hinton congratulating Lenna Lowe Yost for the ratification victory.
• West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association (8)
• West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association (7)