To Drink & To Vote: The Campaigns for Prohibition and Women's Suffrage
Resources

The following are resources teachers and students can use in studying the issues surrounding Prohibition and Suffrage, which is the focus of this lesson. Marked (X) resources are also found on the CD-Rom that accompanies the teacher's guide for the 20th Century Interactive project. When looking for resources, also check out the links for this unit.

Background

• Wolock, Nancy. "Feminism and Suffrage, 1860-1920." Women and the American Experience. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. 326-363.
• Rose, Kenneth D. "American Women and the Prohibition Movement." American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition. New York and London: New York University Press, 1996. 9-33.
• Holian, Timothy J. Excerpt from "Over the Barrel: The Brewing History and Beer Culture of Cincinnati." Vol. 1 (1800-1919). St. Joseph, MO: Sudhaus Press, 2000. 289-340. [Cincinnati Historical Society Library f663.3 H732 c.2]

Advertisements, Brochures and Pamphlets

• (X) "Give Women a Square Deal" [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 17]
• (X) "In the United States, each one (1) minute..." [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, Brown Papers, MS-147, Box 10]
• (X) "Reasons Why Women Should Not Vote." [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 17]
• (X) "Some May, Some May Not." [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, Brown Papers, MS-147, Box 10, folder 4]
• (X) "Twelve Answers to Anti-Suffrage Arguments Against Votes for Women." [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 3]
• (X) "Voters - Look" [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 17]
• (X) "Voters - Stop" [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 17]
• "Votes for Women - The Woman's Reason" [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 17]

Books

• "The Anti-Prohibition Manual." (1916), pp. 1-31. [Cincinnati Historical Society Library 344.0541 A629 1916]
  (X) with excerpts from this manual on the CD-Rom
• Blocker, Jack S. "Retreat from Reform: The Prohibition Movement in the United States, 1890-1913." Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1976.
• Buechler, Steven M. "Women's Movement in the United States: Woman Suffrage, Equal Rights, and Beyond." New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
• Coffey, Thomas. "The Long Thirst: Prohibition in America, 1920-1933." New York: Norton, 1975.
• Giele, Janet Zollinger. "Two Paths to Women's Equality: Temperance, Suffrage, and the Origins of Modern Feminism." New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.
• Gladden, Washington. Excerpt from "Three Dangers" in Applied Christianity. Boston and New York: Houghton and Mifflin, 1910.
  (X) Excerpt on CD-Rom: pp. 180-197.
• Holian, Timothy J. "Over the Barrel: The Brewing History and Beer Culture of Cincinnati." Vol. 1 (1800-1919). St. Joseph, MO: Sudhaus Press, 2000. (See especially pages 289-340)
  (X)Excerpts of those pages are on the CD-Rom
• Kerr, K. Austin. "Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League." New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
• Kobler, John. "Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition." New York: Putnam, 1973.
• Kraditor, Aileen S. "The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920." New York: Norton, 1981.
• Nation, Carry. "The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation." Topeka: F.M. Stevers and Sons, 1909.
  (X)Excerpt on the CD-Rom: pp. 159-186.
• Pegram, Thomas. "Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933." Chicago: Ican R. Dee, 1998.
• Rose, Kenneth D. "American Women and the Prohibition Movement." New York and London: New York University Press, 1996. 9-33.
• Shaw, Anna Howard. "The Story of a Pioneer." New York: Harper and Brothers, 1915. (See especially the section on Susan B. Anthony.)
• Smith, Ophia D. "Fair Oxford." Oxford, OH: Oxford Historical Press, 1947. (See the section describing women sitting in local saloons to protest drinking.)
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897." New York: Schocken Books, 1971. (Stanton describes her process of writing the suffrage amendment and getting it passed.)
• Terrell, Mary Church. Eds. "Woman Suffrage and the Fifteenth Amendment." Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle. Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
  (X) Excerpt on CD-Rom: pp. 260-61.
• Upton, Harriet Taylor. Excerpt from "Random Recollections." Committee for Preservation of Ohio Woman Suffrage Records, 1927. Chapter XIV, pp. 1-17.
• Wolock, Nancy. "Feminism and Suffrage, 1860-1920." Women and the American Experience. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Pp. 326-363.

Cartoons

• (X) "Election Day" [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-51821 DLC]
• (X) "Father's at Work, Mother's Off Campaigning." Dayton Daily News (2 Aug 1912), A-26. [Dayton and Montgomery Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 11]
• (X) "The Dream and the Reality." Dayton Daily News (10 Aug 1912), A-12. [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 9]
• (X) "To the Male Citizen." Dayton Daily News (3 Aug 1912). [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 8] [also available at DDN Archives]
• (X) "To the Woman in the Home." Dayton Daily News (17 Aug 1912), A-19. [Dayton and Montgomery Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 10]
• (X) Thompson, Thomas R. "The National Temperance Alphabet." (1908) [Wright State University Library, Special Collections, Brown Papers, MS-147, Box 10, Folder 4]

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

• (X)Hirsch, Dr. W. L. "Women Are Not Immune." Dayton Daily News (27 June 1912): J-29. [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 7]
• (X)Hubbard, Mrs. Herman. "Franchise a Privilege Conferred Upon Those Able to Defend It" Dayton Daily News (June 15, 1912). [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, page 2.]
• (X)Kumler, Mrs. Charles H. "Women as Leaders and as Organizers" Dayton Daily News, (ca. July or Aug 19, 1912): 12. [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5,]
• (X)Pankhurst, Emmeline. "Americans Won Liberty Through Militancy, Why Shouldn't We?" Dayton Journal (29 Oct 1913) [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 5, p. 41.]
• (X)Stevens, Miss Doris. "Suffrage Worker in Last Address Answers Charges of Mrs. Talbott" Dayton Daily News (Jan 1914). [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Box 5]

Statements

• Brown, Martha McClellan. "The Equity of Woman Suffrage." Article in The New Voice (8 Feb 1906). [WSU, Dunbar Special Collections, MS 147, Brown papers, Box 11, folder 10]
• Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood. "The Ethics of the Negro Question." Can I Get A Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of American Women. Ed. Marcia Riggs. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997. 132-145.
• Cox, Gov. James M. "Address to the Chairman and Members of the County Licensing Board," ?1913. [WSU, Dunbar Special Collections, MS-2, James Cox Papers, Series I, Box 1]
• Upton, Harriet Taylor. "Ohio Suffrage Leader on Direct Legislation." [WSU, Dunbar Special Collections, Brown Papers, MS-147, Box 10, folder 8]

Photographs

• (X) 1913 Suffragist Demonstration in Ohio [Dayton and Montgomery County Public County Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 7] *Four photos.
• (X) Cover of the official program from the Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington D.C. March 3, 1913 [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZC4-2996 DLC]
• (X) Dayton area suffragists pose for a group photo. [Dayton and Montgomery County Public County Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 7]
• (X) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (sitting) and Susan B. Anthony [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ61-791 DLC]
• (X) Emmeline Pankhurst [Dayton and Montgomery County Public County Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 7]
• (X) Harriet Taylor Upton [Dayton and Montgomery County Public County Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 7]
• (X) Headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-25338 DLC]
• (X) Martha McClellan Brown [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS 147, Box 16, folder 5]
• (X) Mary Church Terrell [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-54722 DLC]
• (X) Suffrage Headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-30776 DLC]
• (X) Suffrage parade in New York City, May 6, 1912. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-10845 DLC]
• (X) Suffragette demonstration urging men to help women win the vote. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-23622 DLC]
• (X) Susan B. Anthony [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-23933 DLC]

Songs, Letters, Speeches, Reports

• (X) "Shall Women Vote." Words by Joseph D. Payne. Music by Frank Boylen. 1881. [Library of Congress, Music Division M2.3.U6A44]
• (X) "The Lips that Touch Liquor, Shall Never Touch Mine." Words by Sam Booth. Music by Geo.T. Evans. 1874. [Library of Congress, Music Division M2.3.U6A44]
• (X) "The Temperance Crusade." Words by Moses Owen. Music by C. K. Hawes. 1874. [Library of Congress, Music Division M2.3.U6A44]
• (X) Andreae, Percy. "The Real Menace of Prohibition." In The Prohibition Movement. (from address delivered in Cincinnati Music Hall on 30 Oct 1914). [Cincinnati Historical Society Library 344.0541 A556]
• (X) Bowdle, Hon. Stanley E. "Speech of Hon. Stanley E. Bowdle." (12 Jan 1915) [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS 147, Box 10, folder 7]
• (X) Brown, Martha McClellan. "Sentiment. Our Victories." (2 May 1904) [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS 147, Box 11, folder 11]
• (X) Brown, Martha McClellan. "The Equity of Woman Suffrage." Article in The New Voice (8 Feb 1906). [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS 147, Brown papers, Box 11, folder 10]
• (X) Cox, Gov. James M. "Address to the Chairman and Members of the County Licensing Board, ? 1913." [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS-2, James Cox Papers, Series I, Box 1]
• (X) Cox, Gov. James M. Excerpt from speech given in Bellefontaine, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1913. [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS-2, James Cox Papers, Series I, Box 1]
• (X) Cox, Governor James M. Excerpt from "First Message of Governor Cox to the General Assembly of Ohio, 1913." In Ohio General Assembly Addresses. [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS-2, James Cox Papers, Series I, Box I]
• (X) Pomerene, Senator Atlee. "1914 Statement to the U.S. Senate." [Dayton and Montgomery Public Library, Suffrage Collection, Box 3, folder 3]
• (X) Rust, Charles. "To the Prohibitionists of Hamilton County." (31 Oct 1910) [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS-147, Brown papers, Box 10, folder 1]
• (X) Schwarz, Florence Goff. "The Suffragist-Feminist." (undated) [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, MS-147, Brown Papers, Box 10, folder 7]
• (X) Shaffer, Rev. J. F. "The Duty of the State in Relation to the Liquor Traffic." [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives,, MS-147, Brown papers, Box 10, folder 4]
• (X) Talbott, Mrs. Harry E. "Letter to Rev. Albert F. Brandenburg." (19 Oct 1916). [Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Suffrage collection, Box 2, folder 2]
• (X) Upton, Harriet Taylor. "Ohio's Suffrage Leader on Direct Legislation." [Wright State University, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Special Collections & Archives, Brown Papers, MS-147, Box 10, folder 8]

Videos and Films

• American Chronicles, 1918-1961. Van Nuys, CA: AIMS Media, 1986. [VHS; 10 videocassettes; 24 min. each]. (The first cassette covers the years between World War I and World War II. Available at Wright State University library.)
• The Amendments to the Constitution: Bill of Rights and Beyond. Charleston, WV: Cambridge Educational, 1998. [VHS; portions covering Amendments 18-19 on prohibition, and Amendment 20 on women's right to vote, are 8 min. each]. (Available at Wright State University library.)
• The Century: America's Time, Boom to Bust. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1999. [VHS; 45 min.; volume 1 of a six-part series]. (Peter Jennings investigates the culture of the Roaring '20s: women's suffrage, prohibition, the Scopes trial, jazz, and the emergence of the KKK. Available through the History Channel http://www.historychannel.com website.)
• How We Got the Vote: The Exciting Story of the Struggle for Female Equality. Los Angeles: Republic Pictures Home Video, 1986. [VHS; 52 min.] (Original films, photography, cartoons, and personal interviews tell the story of early 20th century women fighting for suffrage. Available at Miami University and Antioch libraries.)
• One Woman, One Vote. Educational Film Center, 1995. [VHS video from the PBS series The American Experience; 120 min.] (Documents the 70-year struggle for ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Available at Wright State, Miami, University of Cincinnati libraries.)
• Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America. New York: A&E Home Video, 1997. [VHS; three videocassettes; the first videocassette covers the dry crusade and is 50 min.] (Examines the history of the United States during the time of prohibition, including why the 18th Amendment passed, the ways of bootleggers and gangsters, and the development of jazz. Available at the University of Cincinnati library.)
• Votes for Women?: The 1913 U.S. Senate Testimony. Madison, WI: Her Own Words, 1990. [VHS; 17 min.] (Combines pictures with words based on the discussion of the equal suffrage for men and women resolution at the Senate hearings of April 1913. Includes verbatim testimony along with pro- and anti-suffrage buttons, banners, and cartoons from the time. Available through the publisher.)

Marked (X) resources are also found on the CD-Rom that accompanies the teacher's guide for the 20th Century Interactive project.

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