Minobu Yoshida, a Japanese women's rights activist

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ddr-njpa-4-1073 (J1215.001)

Nippu Jiji Photograph Archive, "Japanese" Collection

Caption on front [translation]: "Minobu Yoshida. 1. Member of the League for the Realization of Women's Suffrage; 2. Maebashi-shi 87; 3. September 15, 1910; 4. Graduated from Maebashi Girls' Public High School; 5. Gunma prefecture, Isesaki Printing Office; 6. Tennis, swimming; 7. After graduation she got married. She was inspired by her brother's social activism and devoted herself to the movement for acquiring the right to vote for women. She was active in building the Gunma branch and finally, in March of this year, there will be a big opening ceremony in Maebashi. As the leader of the branch she now devotes herself to the educational movement for the purpose of women's liberation."

c. 1920s-1930s

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