Mrs. T. W. Cox letter to Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, October 23, 1914

Mrs. T. W. Cox sent this letter to the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association on October 23, 1914. She wrote the letter to inform the women of Franklin County that she was sending posters on women's suffrage. She also requested they send her the leaflet "Justice and Equality." The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex