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The online journal and database, WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, is engaged in several crowdsourcing projects to create a new Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S. For some months we have been engaged in recruiting volunteers to write brief biographies of Black women suffragists and militant suffragists who supported the National Woman’s Party. Those projects are well launched and we now propose to start work on biographical sketches of suffrage supporters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association between 1890 and 1920. Our goal is to prepare this Online Biographical Dictionary in time for the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 that extended woman’s suffrage to states that had not already enacted woman suffrage.
Anticipating that 100th anniversary we invite colleagues to participate in this crowdsourcing project. We need one volunteer from each state and the District of Columbia to serve as “state coordinators.” These volunteers will help to recruit faculty, students, and interested history buffs to research and write the biographical sketches. State coordinators would then review and copyedit the biographical sketches and share them with Tom Dublin, co-editor of the Women and Social Movements website and director of the Online Biographical Dictionary project. He will arrange for the publication of the sketches on the website.
If state coordinator seems like more of a time commitment than you can make, please volunteer to have students in one of your classes in 2016-2018 write bio sketches of suffragists. More than a dozen faculty this school year have made such assignments and uniformly they report that their students were very excited to be doing research and writing that would be published and would contribute to a reference tool for historians of women. You can do this any semester between Fall 2016 and Spring 2018.
Finally, if you don’t teach a likely course in which to make this assignment, consider volunteering to write 1-2 bio sketches on your own. Or circulate this notice to graduate students in your program and ask if they’d be interested. Or if you have likely honors undergraduates who need a project, please ask for a few names of suffragists in your state and you can have students do the sketches in an independent study setting.
If you would be interested in participating in this project in any of these ways, please send an email to tdublin@binghamton.edu. It’ll be great to have you onboard for this teaching project.
Thomas Dublin
Bartle Distinguished Professor of History
SUNY Binghamton
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