STORY ABOUT DORIS STEVENS SUFFRAGETTE

Jeanne Weaver introduced her long-time friend, Sally Bisson, Professor at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha. Jeanne said that they were law school classmates at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  (Jeanne said they were suspected of being partners in various forms of mischief of sorts)  Sally is a professor of paralegal studies at the College of St. Mary.  Her subject was Doris Stevens from Omaha the and her activities as a suffragette in the early 1900's.

Following is an excerpt from the Omaha World Herald March 17, 2017 by Matthew Hansen:  Bringing Doris Stevens back to life — and back to Omaha — is what Bisson has been doing for the past few years. She spent a semester on sabbatical studying Doris’ early years and lifelong connection to Omaha. She’s beginning to give presentations to groups in the Omaha area. She also plans to pen several journal articles on the life of this long-forgotten heroine of the women’s rights movement.  (Copy and paste the following link into your browser for details of Doris Stevens, or, simply Google:  Bisson and Hansen and Omaha World Herald and Stevens)  www.omaha.com/columnists/hansen/hansen-she-picketed-marched-and-helped-win-women-the-right/article_1f9276aa-96ef-512b-9f2f-ece0fc05ab1

 

Doris spent a lot of time in New York and Washington DC and elsewhere marching, picketing, confronting, organizing, getting tossed into jail, what ever it took to convince the country's leaders from President Woodrow Wilson  and down to enact legislation to allow women to vote.  Results were achieved with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.