Wikipedia:GLAM/Washington State Historical Society/Events and Workshops/Women's Suffrage Centennial Program

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Scholars and interested citizens are invited to come together virtually this week (March 20-28, 2020) to collaborate and improve the Women's suffrage movement in Washington (state) Wikipedia article. The resources below will help you get started if you're new to editing!

Honor the 100 year anniversary of Washington ratifying the 19th Amendment by updating this page to reflect the dedicated work of Washington’s women suffragists.

Hosted by Washington State Historical Society.

Welcome

Here's how to get started:

• Please create an account on Wikipedia if you have not done so yet.
• Check out the tutorials and helpful beginner's info (below)
• Before you start editing, log into our Dashboard (below) so we can track how many edits we make as a group!
• You're ready! For the Women's suffrage movement in Washington (state) page, we've compiled the following suggestions for you to choose from:

Washington State Suffrage Movement Page Wiki-Thon Chapters:

First Wave: 1850-1870 The Women's Rights Movement Comes to Washington State

1. 18 yr Catherine Paine attends the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and is the youngest signer of the Declaration of Sentiments. Soon after, she moves to Seattle with her minister husband, establishes a Methodist church and school. Receives news of the women's suffrage movement and befriends early territorial legislator Arthur Denny
2. Arthur Denny proposes white woman's suffrage and loses by one vote.
3. Create small bio for Catherine Paine Blaine page

Second Wave: 1870-1900 Washington Women Attempt to Vote

1. Using the 14th Amendment and the citizenship argument to challenge election officials, sisters Mary Olney Brown and Charlotte Olney French attempt to vote in Thurston County elections.
2. Write about Edward Eldridge's bill striking 'male' from the record
3. Link to stubs of Mary Olney Brown and Charlotte Olney French. Build small bios of each woman.
4. Tell the story of the first successful vote of women at Little Rock and Grand Mound. List women who voted and sources.

Susan B Anthony Tours Washington

1. Summarize the tour of Susan B. Anthony in Washington, adding a map of places she touched down, links to her diary entries from the trip, links to newspaper article sources.
2. Link to Abigail Scott Duniway page
3. Add summary of Susan B. Anthony tour to the Abigail Scott Duniway page
4. Write about Susan B. Anthony's address to Washington Territorial Legislature
5. Write about the formation of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association
6. Write about the anti-suffrage law of Washington Territory established in 1871

Voting Rights Won and Lost, Twice in 5 years

1. Write about the victory of women getting the vote in 1883 and public reaction
2. What women did with the vote over four years
3. Write about losing the vote again in 1887, getting it back in 1888 and losing it again that same year
4. Write about Nevada Bloomer case
5. Write about 1889 Constitutional Convention and the disintegration of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association by 1905

Third Wave: 1906-1910 Women Organize

1. Write about the resurrection of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association by Emma Smith DeVoe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Dr. Cora Eaton Smith and May Arkwright Hutton
2. Write about organization tactics (Washington Women's Cookbook, posters and publications - Missouri Hannah, Nettie Craig Asberry) and "still hunt" strategy of Emma Smith DeVoe and May Arkwright Hutton
3. Write about Alaska Yukon Exposition and Mt. Rainier mountaineering suffragists
4. Write about 1909 victory (include links to primary sources: telegrams, letter from Horace Cayton congratulating Emma Smith DeVoe, newspaper articles)

Washington Wins and Ratifies

1. Write about suffrage 5-star flag sent to California (use photographs and postcard with suffrage song as primary source) and reaction in national suffrage movement newspapers after Washington win
2. Write about how Washington became the 35th state to ratify the 19th amendment on March 22, 1920.

How do I prepare?

• Create a Wikipedia account
• Learn about editing if you like: Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Think about which section you would like to edit. Remember, if you can add one sentence, one paragraph, one photo or even one reference - every bit counts!

Learning basics about editing

• Help:Cheatsheet
• "Wikipedia Training Modules". Programs & Events Dashboard->Training Library.

The Manual of Style

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• Manual of Style for Biographies including how to begin the lead paragraph.
• Manual of Style for Biographies of Living Persons

Citation tools

• Help:Citation tools
• "Citer". from Wikimedia Toolforge. will format citations that have a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, or OCLC identifier.
• Use "WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog". Online Computer Library Center. to get ISBN or OCLC identifiers.
• "Google Scholar".
• "Google Books".

Sample reference / citation for a booki:

<ref name="Stevenson 2009 p. ">{{cite book |last=Stevenson |first=Shanna |title=Women's votes, women's voices : the campaign for equal rights in Washington |publisher=Washington State Historical Society |publication-place=Tacoma, Wash |year=2009 |isbn=9780917048746 |oclc=316512873 |page=}}</ref>

What it looks like as a citation:

• Stevenson, Shanna (2009). Women's votes, women's voices : the campaign for equal rights in Washington. Tacoma, Wash: Washington State Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-917048-74-6. OCLC 316512873.

Template for the editathon

Add to article talk pages...
.	{{WikiProject Biography| }} or {{WikiProject Biography}} {{WikiProject Women's History}}

Upon publishing the article on Wikipedia's livespace, please add the following templates to the Talk page:

Also, add this template to the top of the article when saving it

{{Wikipedia:GLAM/WSHS/Do not delete, improve}}

This will produce:

We Can Edit

Posting signs to promote woman suffrage, Washington Equal Suffrage Association, Seattle, 1910 (CURTIS 1185)

Women in Red

Log onto the Dashboard before editing

• "Womens History Wikithon". Programs & Events Dashboard.

• Passcode: qdbjvhsw

Additional hit list of articles to be improved

After this weekend if you want to keep editing, here are some articles about Washington women change makers that need work!

• May Arkwright Hutton
• Emma Smith DeVoe
• Susie Revels Cayton
• Washington State Suffrage Movement Page
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States (add to Washington's section)
• Mercer Girls (Add bios on Mercer Girls)
• Susan B. Anthony (add Washington tour details)

Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.

Additional hit list of articles to be created

These are new articles that need to be created! NOTE: Your account must be at least 4 days old and you must have 10 edits under your belt before you can create an article.

• Nettie Craig Asberry -- just created but needs help!
• Missouri T. B. Hanna
• Catharine Paine Blaine
• Alice Presto
• Carrie Hill
• Virginia Mason (suffragist)
• Elizabeth Ordway
• Mary Olney Brown
• Ella Russell
• Ida Noyes McIntyre
• Belle Reeves -- Created 18 March 2022; much more info can be added from sources linked in article
• Sarah Yesler
• Eliza Barrett
• Mary Borst
• Seattle Woman's Century Club

Additional hit list of articles on suffrage-related legal cases to edit

• Bloomer v. Todd, 3 Wash. Terr. 599 (1888).
• Bradwell v Illinois 18 U.S. 130 (1873).
• Harland v. Territory of Washington, 3 Wash. Terr. 131 (1887).
• Hays v. Territory of Washington, 2 Wash. Terr. 286, 5P. 927 (1884).
• Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875).
• Rosencrantz v. Territory of Washington, 2 Wash. Terr. 267 (1884).
• Slaughterhouse Cases 83 U.S. 36 (1873).
• Thornton v. Territory of Washington, 3 Wash. Terr. 48. (1888).
• George Schilling v. Territory of Washington, 2 Wash. Terr. 283 (1884).
• Walker v. Territory of Washington 2 Wash. Terr. 186 5P. 313 (1884).

What can I do after the event?

You may find these useful if you want to learn further about editing:

• Video tutorials
• Instructional videos on using Wikipedia
• Improving an article's information on Wikidata. See more at Wikidata:Introduction