Moment of Indiana History
The Fifteenth Amendment’s bumpy passage through Congress was nothing compared to the obstacles it would face in the Indiana General Assembly.
"Bloomington is a nice place although it isn’t as big nor as modern as Champaign. The University is a nice place, not out-of-date like I had always heard."
The crowd petitioning the legislature for women’s rights was ridiculed in the press as a “field of crinoline” and a “surging mass of pantaloons.”
Ida Husted Harper--Susan B. Anthony's friend and biographer--was one of the lucky few early suffragists to live to see the Nineteenth Amendment pass in 1919.
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