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This newspaper article provides the details of Mary Todd Lincoln's imprisonment in an insane asylum and how the Bradwell couple fought for her freedom. President Lincoln's widow was committed to an asylum after a court found her to be insane. This…

In this timeline of the Woman’s Rights Movement in Illinois created in 1912, one can see how Myra Bradwell was a huge part of the feminist movement. The timeline notes that in the same year she took her case to the United States Supreme Court, she…

One of the few pictures that exist of James Bradwell. James Bradwell grew up in the Cook County area and would spend much of his life there. After marrying Myra Colby in 1852, he was admitted into the Illinois Bar in 1854 and served as a lawyer for…

This article covers the convention of the National Women Suffrage Association. This was before the suffrage movement split into two factions over the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted black men but not women the right to vote. Two important things…