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Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, The Famous PlatformLecturer, and Member of School Board , Washington , D. C.

This noted lecturer spoke to crowdedhouses in Europe. She recently spoke inMarshall, Dallas, FortWorth Houstonand New Orleans, She has inspiredall who have heard her. She will lecture at the C. M. E. Church Tuesday night, May , at 8:30 o'clock Hear her. ADMISSION 25 CENTS .

[Mary Church Terrell] , a prominent Black suffragist and the first woman appointed to the Washington D.C. Board of Education, used her gift for languages spoke at least three – to fight for the suffrage movement and for Black women's inclusion in it.

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A Few Leading Questions.

Q. Under a representative form of Government, such as ours, should make the laws ? The people. Q. Do the people make the laws ? A. No ; one-half the people are forbidden any share in law -making. Q. Who do make the laws? A. Men. Q. Who gave men the right to make the laws ? A. Men Q. Do not the laws concern women A. They certainly do. Q. May not women take part in making the laws which they must obey ? A. They may not Men alone make the laws for women and men. Q. If a woman transgress the law, who decides the penalty, tries, convictsand punishesher Men

Q. Who sit on the juries before whom women are tried A. Men only. Q. Is this what the constitution means by “ judgment of his peers A. Evidentlynot.

Ina pamphletpublishedin 1903by the RochesterPoliticalEquality Club inNewYork, suffragists rebuttedsome of the most common arguments against women's rightto vote.

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The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage would become the N.W.P. out a weekly journal , The Suffragist, to advertise its activities and recruit people to the cause . The publication ran from 1913 to 1921 and was staffed by women such as Frances Pepper , left, and Elizabeth Smith , pictured in the newsroom in 1916. During the Silent Sentinel pickets, The Suffragist exposed the illtreatment of imprisoned protesters .

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The Texas suffragist Jovita Idár, second from right, came from a family ofjournalists and activists, and she used the pages of their newspapers La Crónica and Evolución to advocate women's rights and the rights of Mexican -Americans.

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