Students in Professor Kimberly Jensen’s Honors Colloquium at Western Oregon University in Winter 2018 conducted research about what diverse women in Oregon were doing in the period of the movement for woman suffrage and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. They utilized digitized historic newspapers, most of which are available at the Oregon Historic Newspapers site at the University of Oregon https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ and secondary sources, all listed in sources sections at the conclusion of each documents project.
Birth Control: The Fight for Sexual Freedom by Bella Magdaleno
Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy and Prohibition, 1920 by Sara Madden
Mexican Women in Early 1900s Oregon Newspapers by Rachel Worley
“I Have Long Suspected My Condition and Now I Know”: Homosexuality and Gender Identity in the 1920s by Desiree Root
Mother Knows Best: The Portland Housewives League and Motion Picture Censorship by Brianne Moodie
Normal School Extracurriculars by Rachel Bayly
Oregon Mathematician Lucile Copenhaver by Katelyn Rule
Oregon Women on School Boards, 1912-1921 by Sierra Fresh
Portland, Oregon Black Women’s Clubs React to Visit of National Leader by Morgan Williams
Portland’s Neighborhood House and the National Council of Jewish Women by Antonia Scholerman
Sylvia Thompson: Oregon’s Third Female State Legislator, 1916-1922 by Noah Johnson
Valentine Prichard and the Portland Free Dispensary by Amanda Lehman