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Illinois Women's Suffrage timeline
 * 48th Illinois General Assembly


 * May 7, 1913: Senate Bill 63 – State Senator Hugh Stewart Magill, Jr. (1868–1958), from Princeton, sponsored a limited suffrage bill. The Illinois Senate (the Upper House) passed May 7, 1913, by a vote of 29 yeas (3 more than the required majority) to 15 nays.
 * June 11, 1913: The House posed a stiffer challenge, right up to the day of the vote. The Illinois House of Representatives (the Lower House) passed it June 11, 1913, by a vote of 83 to 58.
 * June 26, 1913: Governor Edward F. Dunne sign the bill June 26, 1913, in Springfield. It was filmed for the movies.
 * November 19, 2013: Suit filed in Tazewell County challenging the constitutionality of Illinois Women's Suffrage bill as it related to a special election on October 20, 1913. Joseph A. Weil, was the attorney for the plaintiffs composed of eleven taxpayers.

Quotes
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.


 * An early lecture poster, from 1892, is still evocative today, thanks to the quote that appears next to Wells's picture: "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."


 * "Miss Ida B. Wells, A Lecture," Washington Bee, October 22, 1892.

Alpha Suffrage Club
In the years following her dispute with Willard, Wells continued her Anti-Lynching campaign and organizing in Chicago. She focused her work on Black women's suffrage in the city following the enactment of a new state law enabling partial women's suffrage. The Illinois Presidential and Municipal Suffrage Bill of 1913 (see Women's suffrage in Illinois) gave women in the state the right to vote for presidential electors, mayor, aldermen and most other local offices; but not for governor, state representatives or members of Congress. Illinois was the first state east of the Mississippi to give women these voting rights. During the membership of Ida B. Wells in the Negro Fellowship League, the organization advocated for women's suffrage alongside its support for the Republican Party in Illinois.

The prospect of passing the act, even one of partial enfranchizment, was the impetus for Wells and her White colleague Belle Squire to organize the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago on January 30, 1913. One of the most important Black suffrage organizations in Chicago, the Alpha Suffrage Club was founded as a way to further voting rights for all women, to teach Black women how to engage in civic matters and to work to elect African Americans to city offices. Two years after its founding, the club played a significant role in electing Oscar DePriest as the first African-American Alderman in Chicago.

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 Reprinted by the New York Call (July 23, 1911). "The Negro's Quest for Work". . .  Transcribed and published by The Black Worker (1900 to 1919). Vol. 5. Foner, Philip Sheldon (1910–1994); Lewis, Ronald L. (eds.). Part I: "Economic Condition of the Black Worker at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century". Temple University Press. pp. 38–39 – via. .