New Jersey Churches for Woman Suffrage

The women’s suffrage movement needed support from different groups in order to achieve its goal. This broadside published by the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association during the campaign for a state suffrage amendment in October 1915, expresses support for the movement from New Jersey churches of different denominations. The clergymen listed, members of the Society of Friends, Roman Catholic Church and different branches of the Protestant Church, endorsed equal suffrage on the grounds that it would promote "temperance, the protection of the home and the building of higher ideals in National life." This association of women's suffrage with the temperance movement probably insured the amendment's defeat, particularly in urban areas.

New Jersey Political Broadsides, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

10/1/1915

Fernanda Perrone

New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association broadside "New Jersey Churches for Women Suffrage," 1915.