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Clara Barton: Women
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Clara Barton - For a brief period, Clara Barton was the superintendent of this Massachusetts prison for women, MCI Framingham, then called the Women's Reformatory. Color photograph of an old section of the prison.
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In addition to her work as a teacher, copyist and humanitarian, Barton was ... an ardent suffrage supporter. She was a friend of Susan B. Anthony and spoke at many suffrage conventions, including the first national women’s suffrage convention held in Washington, D.C. (1869) and National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Conventions of 1893, 1902, 1904, and 1906. In 1902, Barton loaned thirty flags presented to her from foreign nations to the NAWSA convention. The flags were proudly displayed on the convention’s platform. At the 1904 NAWSA Convention, she held a reception at her home in Glen Echo to honor Susan B. Anthony’s birthday. Hundreds of convention members attended and were treated, at their request, to a display of her many medals, decorations and other memorabilia.
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Influenced at this critical time by woman suffrage advocate Frances Dana Gage, Barton's disappointment expanded into a view of the broad injustice done to women. Soon Barton would write, "I think 'taxation and representation are and of right ought to be inseparable.' I most devoutly wish that intellect, education and moral worth decided a voter's privileges and not sex, or money or land or any other unintelligent principle."
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