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Age of Consent Campaign, 1886-1914, Endnotes
13. Odem, Delinquent Daughters, p. 34; Pivar, Purity Crusade, p. 145.
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14. Historian Mary Odem found only one Black Woman's Club that supported the
age-of-consent campaign. Odem, Delinquent Daughters, p. 28. See "The Woman's
Club of Omaha," Woman's Era, 2 (August 1895), p. 7: "In all reformatory efforts
affecting mankind generally and women particularly the club enters enthusiastically.
At the last general assembly of the state of Nebraska it was engaged earnestly in
the effort to stop the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the state, and joined
heart and soul in the social purity question, sending down to the legislature a
petition, bearing the names of 150 colored women, praying that body to raise the
'age of consent' from 15 to 18 years."
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15. Pivar, Purity Crusade, pp. 186-90.
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16. Pivar, Purity Crusade, pp. 110-17, 189.
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17. Odem, Delinquent Daughters, pp. 36-37.
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