Women's Suffrage Journals

Publishers of The Women's Chronicle
Courtesy of the Arkansas History Commission

Also in the 1880s two women's journals were founded which espoused suffrage for women.

In 1884 Little Rock's Mrs. Mary W. Loughborough launched a journal for women, and although the Arkansas Ladies' Journal was not solely dedicated to that one issue, it called for women's suffrage.

In 1888 three other women - Catherine Campbell Cunningham, Mrs. Mary Burt Brooks and Mrs. William Cahoon - began publishing the Woman's Chronicle which went further than Mrs. Loughborough's Arkansas Ladies Journal in promoting suffrage for women. In fact, it soon became the chief organ for the women's suffrage movement in the south. It ceased publication in 1889, however, because of Cunningham's illness.

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