Women’s Suffrage Advocacy in Washington D.C., H.C. Ingersoll Petition to the 41st Congress, 1870
Ingersoll, H.C. Petition of H.C. Ingersoll Praying that the Right of Suffrage be Granted to Women in the District of Columbia, 1870, advancing a formal appeal to the 41st Congress during the Reconstruction period to extend voting rights to women in the nation’s capital. Issued at a moment when federal.....