National League of Women Voters Delegate Badge, 1922
Object Details
- associated date
- 1922-04-20
- associated institution
- League of Women Voters
- associated person
- Blackwell, Alice
- Description
- Badge worn by Alice Stone Blackwell as a delegate to the League of Women Voters 3rd Annual Convention and Pan-American Conference of Women held in Baltimore, Maryland April 20-30, 1922.
- In 1920 the National American Woman Suffrage Association became the League of Women Voters with Carrie Chapman Catt as its first president. It was formed to help educate newly enfranchised women.
- Alice Stone Blackwell was the daughter of Lucy Stone and an avid women’s rights advocate in her own right. She assumed editorship of the Woman’s Journal, a leading women’s political journal from 1870 to 1931, when her father, co-founder of the periodical with her mother, passed away (Stone Blackwell's editorship lasted from 1909-1917).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated place
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
- Subject
- Women's Suffrage
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Woman Suffrage
- Credit Line
- Transfer from the Library of Congress
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- PL.242991.273
- catalog number
- 242991.273
- accession number
- 242991
- Object Name
- badge
- Physical Description
- metal (badge materials)
- paper (badge materials)
- fabric (ribbon materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_529850