Campaign Materials & Organizing Records · Hall on Locust Street · Spring 1913
Chapter membership pledged this spring: 0 sisters and allies — and growing by the hour.
Sister, Friend, Neighbor — You Are Needed
What follows is our active casebook of posters, broadsides, and pamphlets in circulation this season. Every notice on this wall corresponds to a real meeting, a real march, a real petition awaiting your hand. Read.Choose.Commit. The vote will not come to us — we must walk out and demand it.
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Notices Posted — March through June, 1913
Tap any notice to read the manifesto, learn the march route, and pledge your hand.
A Letter from Rochester
My dear sisters of the Mayfield Alliance,
Word reaches me of your spring campaign — of the broadsides upon every lamppost, of the petitions traveling parlor to parlor, of the bright young voices on the steps of your Locust Street hall. It warms an old organizer's heart in a way no fire could.
Hear me plainly: do not wait to be invited into history. No legislature has ever, in all the years I have lived, opened its doors of its own kindly accord. The door must be knocked upon. The door must be knocked upon again. And then, if necessary, the door must be carried home upon our shoulders.
Three small counsels from one who has walked these streets longer than she likes to admit. First — feed the marchers. A hungry woman cannot orate. Second — keep records of every name. Numbers persuade where eloquence cannot. Third — when the editorialists call you shrill, smile, thank them for noticing, and march again next week.
Failure is impossible. I have said it so often it has become a habit, and a habit is only a belief that has practiced enough.
— Susan B. Anthony
P.S. — Tell young Miss Greaves the speech I heard reported is excellent. Tell her to slow down on the third paragraph. The room will give it to her if she waits.
