League History
Purpose of the founding of the League of Woman Voters
What is helping women become informed voters?
A delegation from this county visited Door County in an international cultural exchange in 2011
What is Azerbaijan?
Enfranchisement
What is the right to vote called?
The bread and butter of League since its very beginning - activities to help citizens become active, informed voters
What is Voter Service?
A statement which explains that the League never supports political parties or candidates for office
What is the Nonpartisan policy?
Citizenship Schools & "Know Your Government Studies"
What were the first types of projects started by the new LWV's chapters?
The subject of a lawsuit filed in Circuit Court by the Sturgeon Bay League against the Door County Board on July 27, 1972
What was the reapportionment of Door County'ssupervisory districts?
Arrested for voting in Rochester, New York in 1872
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
Redistricting reform
What is the subject of a lawsuit by the LWV WI in recent years to avoid gerrymandering by the party currently in power in the legislation?
A list of issues and activities that a League plans to work on during the next year
What is a local League's program?
A "Mighty Political Experiment"
What was the phrase used by a journalist to characterize the newly organized League of Woman Voters?
"Mulish Tenacity of League Cited in City Health Study"
What was a headline on an article in the Door County Advocate during the '50s?
His mother told him to do it
Why did Harry Burns, member of the Tennessee Legislature, vote to ratify the 19th Amendment resulting in Tennessee being the final state needed to adopt the 19th Amendment?
Members who regularly attend meetings of local government to monitor the Open Meetings Law and learn about current issues
What is Observer Corps?
Per member payment (PMP)
What are the fees due to state and national League per year from the local League for each member?
Federal aid for maternal and childcare programs, Social Security, Food & Drug Acts, and the Tennessee Valley Authority
What are examples of early legislation that League supported and lobbied for which were successful?
The first project the fledgling Sturgeon Bay League completed as a provisional League
What is the pamphlet on the structure of local government called This is Door County?
Oqqoquan Work House, Lorton, Virginia
Where were suffragists who were arrested for demonstrating outside the White House incarcerated?
Classes on local government
What are classes which League has sponsored ad presented for Learning in Retirement and the Clearing in Winter?
League Studies and Positions
What is the process that League follows to determine its point of view as a group, so it can know how it should lobby and advocate on public policy issues?
The organization which developed into the League of Women Voters and from which it inherited its structure of a federation of affiliated state League
What is the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
Attending election night vote counting and calling results into various news media
What did League members do as a fundraiser - getting paid by the networks for the reporting?
The three women sculpted by Adelaide Johnson in 1921 in "The Portrait Monument," dedicated in the United States Capitol Rotunda, then placed in the crypt until it was finally returned to the Rotunda in 1997
Who are Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony?
Mental Health/Substance Use
What are the issues that a current study committee is working on?
Lively Issues
What do we call the January meeting devoted to identifying possible issues to take action on and programs to implement for the following year?