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The student news site of New Jersey City University

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson saved this classic suffrage swag, a map showing the growth of women’s right to vote. Like many scrapbook makers, Dunbar-Nelson reused an old book or ledger. Hers was a household accounts book, probably never used. When scrapbook makers pasted over other books, they demonstrated that they valued one text over the other: in this case, suffrage work over close attention to individual housekeeping.

Get Out The Vote: 1915 and Earlier

Ellen Gruber Garvey, retired NJCU professor
November 2, 2020
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