September 10, 1881

Lizzie Dorman Fyler, a suffragette lawyer from Massachusetts who made her home in Eureka Springs (Carroll County), reported to the Woman’s Journal that the Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association had been organized. Although agitation for political and economic rights for women had been advocated since shortly after the Civil War, Arkansas legislators had failed to enact proposals that would have granted equal privileges and rights to any citizen of at least twenty-one years of age who could read and write the English language.