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near Union Square in San Francisco. By 1910 the club was receiving publicity in local newspapers. It was initially intended to appeal to shop girls and clerks. Reading materials on the suffrage movement were widely available in the club. Under Solomons leadership, in 1910 the Votes for Women Club
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family with deep roots in the United States. She was the daughter of Seixas and Hannah Marks Solomons. Despite a humble background her father founded one of the first Jewish temples in the state of California. Selina Solomons died in 1942.
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Solomons believed the 1896 defeat was due in part to a lack of emphasis on organizing working-class women. To address this, she opened the
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also aimed to combat the "white slave trade" in girls which was a euphemism in this era for prostitution. It was in 1910 that the
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Solomons worked with many notable California suffragists including
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convention in her role as president of the Votes for Women Club.
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active in the 1911 campaign which resulted in the passage of
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Index

California suffragist
Proposition 4
Maud Younger
Lillian Coffin Harris
vote in California in 1911

Votes for Women Club
Mann Act
California Equal Suffrage Association
sephardic Jewish
"How We Won the Vote in California"



"San Francisco Call 14 September 1911 — California Digital Newspaper Collection"
"Selina Solomons | Jewish Immigrants in San Francisco | American Jerusalem"
"San Francisco Call 24 October 1910 — California Digital Newspaper Collection"


"Soup, salad, suffrage: How women won their right to vote in California"
"San Francisco Call 26 April 1910 — California Digital Newspaper Collection"
"San Francisco Call 6 January 1912 — California Digital Newspaper Collection"
"Selina Solomons | Jewish Immigrants in San Francisco | American Jerusalem"
"Hannah Marks Solomons: Jewish Pioneer Woman and Her Distinguished Family – JMAW – Jewish Museum of the American West"
"The California Plan: California's Suffrage Strategy and Its Effects in Other States and the National Suffrage Campaign"
"Selina Solomons (1862–1942) - Turning Point Suffragist Memorial"
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American women's rights activists
Suffragists from California
1862 births

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