Historical Tour 04

Event Contributors Susie Burckhardt Laura Strickland Lelia Dickstein, MD Leslie Marlin Carolyn Diener Genie Potter Nelle Horlander Pam Rogers Katherine Johnson Stacy Smith Claudia Knott Marsha Weinstein We would like to thank the following for their gracious Support of this event: xpanding the rail E T Third Annual Women’s League of Women Voters of Louisville History Tour & Reception 115 South Ewing Avenue Louisville, KY 40206 Sunday, March 28th, 2004 www.lwvus.org 2:30 pm www.lwvlouisville.org [email protected] Spalding University 851 S. Fourth Street Louisville, KY ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT 1830’s to Civil War (1861-1865) Women’s Rights Conventions 1848-1861 American Equal Rights Association 1866 American Woman Suffrage National Woman Suffrage Association 1869 Association 1869 National American Woman Suffrage Association 1890 12. 1910 –Armory Building– 525 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. Ida B. Wells, leader of the African-American women’s suffrage League of Women Voters 1920 movement spoke here at the national convention of the National Association of Colored Women in 1910. Trail Blazers Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association 1881 Helen Humes (photo) on cover Helen Humes sang blues with Count Basie 1938; and worked in Kentucky Equal Rights Indiana munitions plant during World War II. A Helen Humes Association 1889-1920 award is given annually in her honor for most jazz contributions in Louisville. Sarah Fitzbulter, MD (photo) Louisville Woman 1892 - First African American woman to earn medical degree in Ky Suffrage Association at the Louisville National Medical College; joined her husband’s 1889-1920 practice: Memorial to Fitzbutlers at Church of Our Merciful Saviour, 473 So 11th St. Kentucky League of Women Voters 1920 Frances Fairbain, MD 1848 – First white woman physician in Louisville Expanding the Trail 1. 1895– First Unitarian Church—800 S. Fourth St. March 28th, 2004 In 1895, the Unitarian Church hosted Susan B. Anthony 1. 1895 - First Unitarian Church and Carrie Chapman Catt as they conducted a southern 800 So. Fourth St. organizing tour. 2. 1908 – 1912 – Louisville Free Public Library 301 York St. 3. 1913 – Mrs. Augustus Schacher Home 844 So. Fourth St 4. 1889 – Susan Look Avery Home 847 So. Fourth St. 5. 1889 – 1920 – Caroline Leech Home 1249 So. Fourth St. 6. 1909-1911 – Virginia Robinson Home Louisville Free Public Library 101 W Broadway 2. 1908-1912 Louisville Free Public Library– 301 York St. 7. 1907— House Beautiful Louisville suffragists frequently used the Public Library for 334 E Broadway chapter meetings and public forums during these years. 8. 1891 - Linderkranz Hall 172 Market St 9. 1853 – Masonic Temple SW Corner of 4th and Jefferson St. 10. 1881 – Old Opera House “Kentucky women are not idiots– 400 So. Fourth St. even though they are closely 11. 1911 - 1919 – Seelbach Hotel related to Kentucky men” 500 So. Fourth St. 12. 1910 – Armory Building 525 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd 10. 1881 – Old Opera House 400 So Fourth St. (formerly Public Library of Kentucky – currently the Seelbach Hotel Kaufman-Straus Building inside the Galleria) This was the site of the 1881 meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association, the first time Louisville hosted a national 11. 1911 & 1919—The Seelbach Hotel – 500 So. Fourth St. suffrage event. The convention The Seelbach was the site of the Kentucky Equal Rights also gave birth to the state’s first Association convention of 1911 and 1919, as well as the organization, the Kentucky site of the annual meeting of the National American Women Suffrage Association. Women Suffrage Association in 1911 3. 1913—Mrs. Augustus Schacher Home– 844 So. Fourth St At this location suffragist used the Schacher front yard to promote the cause as the Kentucky Educational Association met next door. Susan Look Avery After ratification of the 19th Amendment, former suffragettes 4. 1889—Susan Look Avery Home electioneer outside booth at 921 Baxter Ave., before voting for – 847 So. Fourth St. the first time. C-J and LT 11/2/1920 Susan Look Avery was a key figure in both the women’s club and suffrage movements. Man’s time-worn aspersions concerning the gentler sex will lose their significance tomorrow, and the head of the house will get his 5. 1889-1920 Caroline Leech Home – 1249 So. First St. own breakfast and dinner if he gets any. This doleful prediction was Caroline Leech seems to have been the Louisville suffragist made by Louisville election officials last night, who agreed the women would vote early and quickly. who served the cause the longest from 1889 - 1920 “The women will cause us no trouble at all,” was the sentiment expressed even from the congested precincts. “They will powder their noses and fix their hats before they get to the polls and we’ll risk our lives that they will not change their minds or take an unreasonable time 6. 1909 –1911—Virginia Robinson Home – 101 W Broadway in voting. Any gossiping they may do will be done after they leave.” Virginia Robinson was instrumental in transforming the Women election officials and party workers have seen to it that Louisville Chapter of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association polling places will be clean, warm and attractive, according to represen- from a small, often inactive group into a large, active and tatives of their number. In several instances flowers will be provided effective reform organization. and in one, a garage, automobile warmers and electric heaters will be used. - Courier Journal 11/1/1920 7. 1907 – House Beautiful – Metro United Way 334 E. Broad- way The Women’s Missionary Union (WMU), an interdenomina- tional women’s foreign mission movement was the largest of the 19th century women’s movements. At this site they opened a Masonic Temple School in order to train female missionaries and managers, where women took classes and ran a settlement house. November 25, 1853 FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPER 8. 1891 Linderkranz Hall Rochester, New York – 172 Market St Louisville hosted its first LUCY STONE AT LOUISVILLE. - Lucy Stone gave the first of a course of lectures on the rights convention of the Kentucky and duties of woman at Louisville, Kentucky, on the evening of the 2nd instant. The audience Equal Rights Association was large, though the price of admission was twenty five cents. The press of the city, instead which was formed in 1889 of following the bad example of so many of the journals of New York by ridiculing and abusing and replaced the nominal her, treats her with marked courtesy and respect. The Journal, speaking of her lecture says: Kentucky Women Suffrage Association in 1881. "We confess that we were really delighted. The lecture was one of the ablest, purest, most forcible, and beautiful productions we ever heard. And the style of the delivery was quite equal to the matter. It as an appropriate setting to the rich gems of mind with which the fair orator delighted the assemblage before her. We were sure that we never hear anything of 9. 1853– Masonic Temple — read anything more impressive, more noble and eloquent. She successfully carried the im- SW Corner of 4th & Jefferson St. mense audience with her to every position she sought, and they gave her numerous evi- Lucy Stone, New England dences of the high appreciation in which they held her. To correctness and beauty of her abolitionist and women’s rights sentiments went home to every heart, and we can conceive of no possible objection that any advocate, spoke here in 1853. could make to a single sentiment she uttered last night. After a good deal more of the same After the Civil War, Stone, her sort, the Journal advised every one who could go and hear her next lecture, and expressed husband Henry Blackwell and its fears that Mozart Hall would not hold half the audience. The Courier and Democrat also their daughter, Alice Stone speak in the highest terms of Miss Stone and her lecture. In spite of all the prejudices excited Blackwell, all became prominent against her by the lying abuse of New York papers, and in the fact of the well known fact that national suffrage leaders. these is an Anti-Slavery lecturer of the Garrison school, she seems to have taken the people Linderkranz Hall of Louisville capture. - New York Tribune. Pictured on opposite page. .

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