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Civil Protest
1858 Lucy Stone's Protest of Taxation Without Representation. Her letter to the tax assessor, signaling her refusal to pay property taxes, 1858.
1868 Portia Gage Tries to Vote in Vineland. A description by an early suffragist of her attempt to vote in a municipal election, 1868.
1887 Leonora M. Barry's Report on Women's Work in New Jersey. The Knights of Labor inspector of women's work inspects Trenton, Newark, Bordentown, Lambertville and Paterson, 1887.
c. 1910 Marietta Boggio Botto and her family, ca. 1910.
1913 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike. Flynn recalls strike assemblies and women's meetings, 1913.
1913 Bill Haywood Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike. Haywood comments on women's role in the strike, 1913.
c. 1917 Alice Paul (1885-1979) of Moorestown, militant suffragist.
1918 Julia Hurlbut of Morristown (1882 - 1962), suffragist and relief worker, photograph 1918.
1926 Striking Woolen Workers, Passaic, 1926, a photo of three young women strikers and a police officer.
1958 Dorothy Daggett Eldridge (1903-1986), the founder of the New Jersey Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.
1970 "Women’s March for Equality," August 26, 1970, a photograph of marchers at the Garden State Plaza, Paramus.