A Kansas Memory Podcast

The Never Ending Struggle for Equality

The documents used in the Equality podcast are available on

• Preamble, Moneka Women's Rights Association
  Book of meeting minutes for the Moneka Woman's Rights Association. It contains the organization's preamble, constitution, and list of members. Members were both male and female. Officers were elected quarterly. Most meetings consisted of an address and discussion of a particular question related to women's rights issues.
• Address to the Voters of Kansas
  The numerous authors of this pamphlet (Republicans) support the constitutional amendments to approve voting rights for blacks, for women, and to restrict voting rights to "loyal persons." They offer arguments for their position as well as criticizing the Democratic Party in Kansas for their opposition to these amendments. Forty five men signed the document, which was the result of a meeting in Lawrence.
• The Women's Vote in Kansas
  Franklin Adams, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, wrote this pamphlet analyzing the votes cast during the April 1887 local election. This was the first election in which women in Kansas could vote in municipal elections, following the passage of a law by the Kansas Legislature in February 1887.