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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Hello, <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">I would appreciate your sending this to your list as I have found that members of library-related listservs are often great researchers & writers. <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">

















<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">This is a call for volunteers to research and
write 500-word biographical sketches on Florida woman suffragists.<span>  </span></span>



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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Since March 2015 the
online journal and database, </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://chswg.binghamton.edu/WASM-US/wsm.htm__;!!PhOWcWs!hvv6qMYNXe05aREghcyICcl7Fjd1zp-LEkYEgo1bo_lu-7IFiNDvPBMn_NFo7A--URd4fg$"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Women and Social Movements in the United States </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(WASM)</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">, has been working on an </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://chswg.binghamton.edu/WASM-US/crowdsourcing/NAWSA_description.html__;!!PhOWcWs!hvv6qMYNXe05aREghcyICcl7Fjd1zp-LEkYEgo1bo_lu-7IFiNDvPBMn_NFo7A9UjDxkcg$"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman
Suffrage Movement in the United States</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">. We have identified more than 3500 grassroots suffrage activists
and have secured sketches for about 2,500 so far.<span>  </span><b>Would
you volunteer to help us complete this project in time for the centennial of
the adoption of the 19<sup>th</sup> Amendment in August 2020? You can view a
first installment of the sketches at
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN__;!!PhOWcWs!hvv6qMYNXe05aREghcyICcl7Fjd1zp-LEkYEgo1bo_lu-7IFiNDvPBMn_NFo7A-rULFn6w$">https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN</a>.<i><span></span></i></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Contributors will
receive author credit as the work is published online. We need new volunteers to
join the project and particularly to work on Florida activists.<span>  </span>We hope that you would like to write 1-2 bio
sketches in the next four-six months and thus contribute to this new reference
tool.<span>  </span><span> </span>If you would like to contribute to the project, please email me<a name="_GoBack"></a> at <a href="mailto:nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com">nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com</a>. Thanks in advance.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Nancy Simmons</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><span></span></span></p>





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