{"id":586,"date":"2020-04-23T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/?page_id=586"},"modified":"2020-04-28T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:41:15","slug":"10b-women-voters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/home\/10-legacies\/10b-women-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"10b &#8211; Delaware women voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although many women\u2019s club members were active suffragists, some opposed suffrage. For that reason, officially, Delaware\u2019s white women\u2019s clubs avoided taking a stand on the issue. Comparing the 1916-1917 and 1923 calendars of the Milford New Century Club demonstrates a key change that the acquisition of suffrage worked. While the members showed continuing interests in Current Events and Civics, by 1923, they had added a committee on Citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Milford New Century Club calendars, 1916-1917 and 1923. Records of the Milford (Delaware) New Century Club.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 1920 as a successor organization to the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), the League of Women Voters (LWV) took a non-partisan approach to educating Delawareans on their citizenship rights and encouraging them to register and vote. The Newark LWV provided informational materials to local residents on elections and on their elected representatives. In 1973, Norma Handloff, Newark\u2019s first woman mayor, was one such representative. Women\u2019s clubs were also active in voter education undertakings. The 1952 \u201cGet out the Vote\u201d campaign by members of the Newark New Century Club reflected the kinds of community service commitments that women in such clubs and organizations made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New Century Club of Newark (Del.). Report of the \u201cGet out the Vote\u201d Community Project (page from report), 1952. Records of the New Century Club of Newark (Delaware). League of Women Voters of Newark Delaware.<\/li><li>\u201cThey Represent You : A Directory of Elected Officials\u201d (booklet), 1973.  Records of the League of Women Voters of Newark, Delaware.  <\/li><li>\u201cRegistration Dates for City of Newark Election\u201d (flier), April 12, 1977. Records of the League of Women Voters of Newark, Delaware.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although many women\u2019s club members were active suffragists, some opposed suffrage. For that reason, officially, Delaware\u2019s white women\u2019s clubs avoided taking a stand on the issue. Comparing the 1916-1917 and 1923 calendars of the Milford New Century Club demonstrates a key change that the acquisition of suffrage worked. While the members showed continuing interests in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":98,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586\/revisions\/1017"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}