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Sources consulted for the biography of:Pauline Forstall Colclough Adams (1874–1957)
Primary Sources
- Pauline Forstall Colclough Adams Papers, including jail letters to sons Edward Forstall Adams, September 30, 1917, and Walter P. Adams, October 23, 1917, Accession 37402, Library of Virginia.
- Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records, Accession 22002, Library of Virginia.
- Some correspondence in Adèle Goodman Clark Papers, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
- Some correspondence and affidavit by Adams on Occoquan workhouse conditions, November 8, 1917, National Woman's Party Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Secondary Sources
- Christine A. Lunardini, From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1910–1928 (1986).
- Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (1993).
- Jennifer Davis McDaid, "All Kinds of Revolutionaries: Pauline Adams, Jessie Townsend, and the Norfolk Equal Suffrage League," Virginia Cavalcade, 49 (2000): 84–93
Newspapers
- Virginian-Pilot and the Norfolk Landmark, April 7, 1917; April 17, 1917.
- Washington Post, September 5, 1917 (quotation); September 6, 1917.
- The Suffragist, esp. 1 September 1, 1917; November 3, 1917; November 15, 1919; February 22, 1919.
- Norfolk Ledger Dispatch, December 16, 1921.
Obituaries
- Norfolk Virginian Pilot, September 11, 1957; September 12, 1957 (editorial tribute).
- Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, September 12, 1957 (editorial tribute).
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