LibGuides: Suffrage in South Dakota: Home

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Women and Social Movements in the U.S., Scholar's Edition
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Ancestry Library (via Proquest)
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South Dakota Woman Suffrage

As the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment approaches in 2020, the USD Libraries have collected a variety of resources relating to woman suffrage - nationally and in regard to South Dakota, whose male citizens voted to enfranchise women in 1918. This LibGuide is not an exhaustive collection of research but rather various research tools to help students and academics to conduct research on a variety of woman suffrage related topics.

South Dakota State Historical Society.
Photograph: Woman Suffrage Parade, Douglas County, SD
http://sddigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/2440/rec/4

Archives in South Dakota

There are others not listed here.

Digitized Collections

The USD Archives and Special Collections digitized suffrage collections.

Jane Rooker Breeden Papers
The Breeden Papers consist of correspondence, pamphlets, administrative records, newspaper clippings and print materials extending from 1895 to 1933. The papers relate to the woman suffrage movement in South Dakota, including material from the South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association, the South Dakota Universal Franchise League, the State Council of Defense and the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Additional materials relate to the South Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs.
Mamie Shields Pyle
The Mamie Shields Pyle Papers consist of correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous printed material extending from 1910-1929. The bulk of the papers document the campaign activities of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League. The League, organized in 1911, succeeded in its campaign with the passage of the suffrage amendment to the state constitution in November 1918. The correspondence also contains materials pertaining to the Woman's Committee of Council of National Defense, South Dakota Division.