American Decades
"Votes for Women"
Editorial
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: September 1912
Source: Du Bois, W.E.B. "Votes for Women." The Crisis, September 1912, 234. Available online at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/webdbtw/doc12.htm; website home page: http://www.womhist.binghamton.edu (accessed January 18, 2003).
About the Author: William Edward Burghart Du Bois (1868–1963) was an historian, sociologist, writer, and civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he was educated at Fisk University (1885–1888) and received a master's degree and a doctorate from Harvard (1888–1896). Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in history from Harvard. In 1910, he resigned as professor of history and economics at Atlanta University to accept a position with the National...
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1910's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The New Nationalism"
- "Henry Cabot Lodge: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine"
- "Votes for Women"
- The Yosemite
- "Composition and Characteristics of the Population for Wards of Cities of 50,000 or More: Lawrence"
- "Woodrow Wilson: The Tampico Affair"
- Family Limitation
- The Zimmermann Telegram
- Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message
- "Opposition to Wilson's War Message"
- "Over the Top": By an American Soldier Who Went
- "Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks Out Against the League of Nations, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1919"
- "Statement by Emma Goldman at the Federal Hearing in Re Deportation"
- Volstead Act of 1919
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
