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Votes for Women. Mary Evelyn Ransom Strong, wife of Frank Strong, the University of Kansas chancellor, rides in a car decorated in support of Women’s Suffrage. Mary is in the back seat, in the black coat. Others in the car include Clement Perkins,…

“K.U. Students to aid suffrage cause.” A story in the Monday, October 14, 1912, University Daily Kansan reported that several university students would perform in the suffrage plays “How the Vote Was Won” and “Black Hollow” at the Bowersock Theatre…

“How the Vote Was Won” A play, co-written by Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) and Christopher St. John (1871-1960), and performed for the first time at the Royalty Theatre, London, in April of 1909. Hamilton was a British author and playwright whose works…