Woman Citizen

Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Woman Citizen’

Woman Citizen (1917-1931) was founded as a result of a legacy from Mrs Frank Leslie, who instructed Carrie Chapman Catt, head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), to use the money to further the cause of women’s suffrage. Three separate pro-suffrage magazines were amalgamated, and straightaway the Woman Citizen enjoyed a solid reputation and wide circulation. After the women of the USA were enfranchised in 1920 (almost a decade before the UK’s women) the magazine focused on keeping women informed of political and social matters worldwide. Financial pressures began to increase in the late 1920s, and the magazine (now renamed Women’s Journal) was forced to close in 1931 during the Great Depression.

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The Serum Run from Woman Citizen

Twenty teams of dogs ran a life-or-death race against time over Alaska’s frozen trails to bring medicines to desperately sick children.

In the icy winter of 1924-25, the town of Nome in Alaska was completely cut off by road, rail, air and sea. When Curtis Welch, Nome’s only doctor, diagnosed diphtheria among the town’s children in mid-January, the race was on to bring thousands of doses of antitoxin from the nearest railway station, 674 miles away over the old Iditarod Trail. American women were among those agog for the latest updates.

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