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    Indianapolis women working for the right to vote : the forgotten drama of 1917
    (2013) Kalvaitis, Jennifer M.; Morgan, Anita A.; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947-; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-
    In the fall of 1917, between 30,000 and 40,000 Indianapolis women registered to vote. The passage of the Maston-McKinley partial suffrage bill earlier that year gave women a significantly amplified voice in the public realm. This victory was achieved by a conservative group of Hoosier suffragists and reformers. However, the women lost their right to vote in the fall of 1917 due to two Indiana Supreme Court rulings.