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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER LIX.
Oklahoma 886-890
Organization — Legislative action and laws — Attempt to secure Full Suffrage from Legislature of 1899 — Eastern "antis" and Oklahoma liquor dealers co-operate — Treachery of a pretended friend — Office-holding — School Suffrage.
CHAPTER LX.
Oregon 891-897
Organization — Congress of Women — Legislature submits Suffrage Amendment — Defeated in 1900 by only 2,000 votes, nearly all in Portland — Excellent laws for women — School Suffrage — Occupations.
CHAPTER LXI.
Pennsylvania 898-906
Organization — Press work — Philadelphia society — Women taxpayers — Legislative action and laws — Office-holding — Hannah Penn a Governor — Women in professions — Oldest Medical College for Women — Educational advantages — Clubs.
CHAPTER LXII.
Rhode Island 907-921
Early organization — State officers — Legislative action and laws — Campaign for Woman Suffrage Amendment in 1887 — Ably advocated but defeated — Efforts to secure Amendment from Constitutional Convention in 1897 — Women in office — Admitted to Brown University — Clubs and Local Council of Women.
CHAPTER LXIII.
South Carolina 922-925
Organization — Legislative action and laws — Office-holding — Education.
CHAPTER LXIV.
Tennessee 926-930
Organization — Protest of women against disfranchisement — Legislative action — Cruel laws for women — Occupations — Education.
CHAPTER LXV.
Texas 931-935
Organization — Laws — Office-holding — Occupations — Education.
CHAPTER LXVI.
Utah 936-956
Women enfranchised by Territorial Legislature in 1870 — Woman's Exponent — Congress disfranchises women in 1887 — They organize to secure their rights — Canvass the State and hold mass meetings — Appear before Constitutional Convention and ask for Suffrage Amendment, which is granted — Miss Anthony and the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw visit Salt Lake City — Amendment carried by large majority in 1895 — Official statistics of woman's vote — Laws — Office-holding — Women legislators — Women delegates — Education — Clubs.