Author: Anna Newman

August 31, 2023

Connecticut State Library Receives 6th Grant Award for Newspaper Digitization

The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has received a supplemental award of $259,644 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to continue to digitize historically significant Connecticut newspapers through...

Clipping of an article entitled “Suffragists Pray Pardon Board To Remit Sentence Of Mrs. Besse Wakefield" from the November 21, 1913, issue of the Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Woman suffrage / Women / Women's History Month

March 24, 2021

Connecticut Suffragists and the Case of Bessie Wakefield

On November 4, 1913, Bessie Wakefield, a 24-year-old mother of two children, became the first woman sentenced to death in Connecticut in over a century. In the months following Wakefield’s conviction, Connecticut suffragists found...

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Connecticut State Library Receives 6th Grant Award for Newspaper Digitization

Connecticut Suffragists and the Case of Bessie Wakefield

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Connecticut State Library Receives 6th Grant Award for Newspaper Digitization

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