On September 28, 1869, the Arkansas Gazette published a notice from one Miss Louise F. Vickers inviting Little Rock citizens to hear her lecture on “The Rights of Woman.”
While Vickers avoids inflammatory suffrage language in her advertisement, she does say “the subject is justly creating much comment throughout the United States and will continue to exercise the minds of just men and thinking women until woman is admitted to her proper sphere in the orbit of society now unjustly withheld from her.”
Vickers goes on to promise not to “offend the ear of the most delicate, no matter how squeamish they may be.”
You can learn more about these fascinating Arkansans at ARvotesforwomen.com.