This place will always matter: Edith Houghton Hooker once demanded voter equity just next door to MWHC

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Houghton Hooker was one of the first women accepted by Johns Hopkins Medical School. She was a social worker who co-founded a home for unwed mothers and their babies. In 1909 she founded the Just Government League and affiliated it with NAWSA, and in 1912 began publishing the Maryland Suffrage News, which became the voice of the movement across the state. The Just Government League offices were once located just steps from the Woman’s Industrial Exchange at 333 N. Charles Street. After defeat of the state suffrage bill, she worked for passage of the 19th amendment, conducting meetings across the state from her automobile. (short bio by Dr. Diane Weaver)

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