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from the issue of August 26, 2004
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A Piece of University History
Today marks the 84th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives women the right to vote. In honor of the day, today's feature is an inscription by Susan B. Anthony, a pioneer of the suffrage movement, to Kate F. O'Connor in one volume of a two-volume set titled The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper, published in 1899.
The inscription reads, "Equal pay for equal work can be attained only through the ballot intelligently wielded - so thinks your friend and coworker, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y., Christmas greetings, 1904."
The book was owned by Edith E. Abbott, a 1901 graduate of the University of Nebraska. Abbott and her sister, Grace, lived and worked at Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, an educational facility for immigrants. O'Connor of Rockford, Ill., campaigned for suffrage and founded the Illinois State League of Women Voters. These books were part of Edith Abbott's personal library and are now in the University Archives and Special Collections at UNL, but it's unknown how Edith Abbott acquired them.
Amos G. Warner, an 1885 UN alumnus, wrote in the 1895 yearbook The Sombrero that Anthony visited Lincoln to argue for a constitutional amendment granting women voting rights.
In this weekly feature, the Scarlet takes a look back at a moment of UNL's past through a historical photo, story or short trivia item.
Information for "A Piece of UNL History" is provided by the University Archives and Special Collections, University Libraries. For more information or to suggest a historical topic for this feature, call 472-8515.
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