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...
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment going into effect on August 26, 1920, the CT Digital Newspaper Project would like to share front page coverage of the events from some of our...
Women Sought the Vote in “Porto Rico,” 1919 In the early twentieth century, Connecticut newspapers regularly reported on politics in Puerto Rico. This included the news around the fight for the woman’s...