Bloomer joined the Good Templars and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, founded a woman’s suffrage society and was elected as its first president. She served as a vice president …

In the same year as their arrival in Council Bluffs, Amelia Bloomer was the first woman to address the Nebraska Territorial Legislature and the first woman to engage in Omaha-area politics.

Amelia Bloomer, one of the most progressive reformers in tem-perance and women's rights in the nineteenth century, moved to Council Bluffs in 1855 during the years of her greatest influence.

Bloomer, the papers of Bloomer and her husband, Dexter Bloomer, and other primary sources, this research draws attention to the link between women’s rights and the early temperance h …

After moving to Council Blufs, Iowa, Amelia Bloomer submitted this letter to the United States Congress in 1878 arguing that denial of women’s sufrage amounted to taxation without …

her superb writing skills, Bloomer fought restrictions against women participating in politics. From 1849 to 1853, she published the newspaper, The Lily, that she described as the first paper …

They are in substance the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence, and they form the common basis upon which our national and state governments rest. When they shall …