Amy R. Juengling
Amy R. Juengling | |
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.jpg) Juengling in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 1917 | |
| Born | Amy Regina Juengling 1886 Buffalo, Erie County, New York |
| Died | January 16, 1974 (aged 87–88) Lackawanna, Erie County, New York |
| Occupation(s) | Suffragist Educator |
| Political party | National Woman's Party |
Amy Regina Juengling (1886 – January 16, 1974) was an American suffragist, educator, and women's rights activist who worked with the National Woman's Party to promote birth control and equal employment.
Early life
[edit]Amy Regina Juengling was born in 1886 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, to Emma Juengling (née Kibler; 1858–1954) and Frederick W. Juengling (1859–1947). She was the second oldest among her five siblings.[1][2]
Juengling was born with a congenital dislocation of the left hip, which required her to wear steel leg braces throughout her childhood until the age of twelve, when she decided to remove them and teach herself to walk without them. She graduated from Buffalo Central High School in 1905, after which she took and passed the German Teacher's exam in June of the following year.[3][4] From 1906 to 1911, she worked in a public school as a German teacher, earning US$420 per year.[a][5] Despite her financial struggles, Juengling enrolled in a summer semester at Cornell University in 1910.[6]
In August 1911, Juengling took a leave of absence from teaching to travel to Puerto Rico with her younger brother, Carl Frederick.[7] Juengling returned to Buffalo in 1912 and continued her teaching career at Amherst Street School.[8] In 1916, she was elected to the Young Men's Christian Association's executive committee, which promoted an "Americanization campaign" for immigrants who needed help learning English in order to obtain American citizenship.[9]
Activism
[edit]Juengling joined the New York State Woman Suffrage Association in 1916 as a scrutineer and was elected secretary of the Civic Education Association's Women's Department that same year. She was also elected as secretary for the Women's Department of the Civic Education Association the same year.[5][10]
In the fall of 1917, she traveled to Washington, D.C., with her step-grandmother, Wanda, who wanted to visit the National Woman's Party headquarters and join a protest march. When Wanda was turned down due to her age and poor health, Juengling was persuaded to march. On November 10, she joined a picket line to protest the treatment of Alice Paul and other imprisoned suffragists. She was one of forty-one people arrested and charged of "obstructing traffic" two days later, though they all pled "not guilty".[11] She was sentenced to thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia, but only served one week.[5][12][13] Two years after, Juengling took part in the "Watchfires of Freedom" protests, which began on January 1, 1919. She was arrested for a second time on February 9th and charged with "unlawfully setting fire to certain combustibles" on White House grounds.[14]
In 1924, Juengling ran for U.S. Congress in New York's 42nd congressional district on the Socialist ticket, as she wanted a woman's name to be written on the ballot.[15] She received 2,778 votes, compared to Republican runner-up Richard S. Persons' 25,236 and Democratic winner James M. Mead's 28,152.[16][17]
In June 1926, Juengling represented the National Women's Party at the International Suffrage Alliance meeting in Paris, France's La Sorbonne, where she advocated employment equality. The following month, she traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark to study women engagement in the country's agricultural industry, mentored by Charles Josiah Galpin of the United States Department of Agriculture's Division of Rural Life.[18][19][20]
In June 1929, Juengling founded Daffodil House as a country home in Eden to provide childcare for families living in South Buffalo, in response to the area's high concentration of single working parents. Although the company was successful in its first two years, it was closed down in 1932.[21][22][5] Juengling's activity after 1930 received little coverage by local press; however, in March 1939, she spoke out against a bill pushing for a centralized education system at a legislative hearing, representing the Eden Valley School District.[23]
Later life and death
[edit]Later in life Juengling cared for her parents and wrote articles that were never published. She also volunteered at her local Presbyterian Church, speaking at Girls' Club meetings.[5][24] In a 1971 interview, she criticized the women's liberation movement, saying, "It's too much a piecemeal approach with side issues like abortion. They should have just one approach, to get absolute equality for women under the Constitution. We certainly don't have it yet".[25]
Juengling died on January 16, 1974 at the age of eighty-seven in Our Lady of Victory Hospital.[25]
See also
[edit]- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- List of women's rights activists
- Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ $420 (equivalent to $14,243 in 2023)
Citations
[edit]- ^ "Thirteenth Census of the United States", United States census, 1910; Buffalo, Erie County, New York; page 1118–1119, line 98–100; 1, Family History film 004972922. (registration required)
- ^ "F.W. Juenglings Start 60th Year of Married Life". The Buffalo News. February 1, 1943. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Commencement in the High Schools". The Buffalo Enquirer. June 23, 1905. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Those Who Succeeded". Buffalo Courier-Express. July 26, 1906. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ a b c d e Littleton Drum, Nancy (2015). "Biography of Regina Amy Victoria Juengling, 1886-1974". Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000. Alexander Street. Archived from the original on February 2, 2025. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
- ^ Official Publications of Cornell University, Catalogue Number 1910-11 (Report). Vol. 11. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University. August 1, 1911. p. 106. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The Social Chronicle". The Buffalo News. August 10, 1911. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Teachers for School Year Announced". The Buffalo Sunday Morning News. September 7, 1913. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Americanizing the Foreign-Born". Buffalo Courier-Express. May 16, 1916. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "The Social Chronicle: Woman's Department, Civic Education Association". The Buffalo News. May 19, 1916. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ Haynes Irwin 1921, p. 251
- ^ "Many Leading Women Pickets Are Arrested". The Evening Tribune. Vol. 40, no. 45. Providence, Rhode Island: Providence Telegram Publishing Co. November 11, 1917. p. 1. Archived from the original on February 2, 2025. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
- ^ Haggerty 1981, p. 87
- ^ Haynes Irwin 1921, p. 391, 404–406
- ^ "Petitions Filed for Primary; Few Contests Noted". The Buffalo Enquirer. August 20, 1924. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 1924 (Report). United States Government Printing Office. 1924. p. 15. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
- ^ "Miss Amy Juengling Suffrage Worker". The Sun and the Erie County Independent – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) . January 24, 1974. p. 4.
- ^ "The Social Chronicle". The Buffalo News. May 15, 1926. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "The Social Chronicle". The Buffalo News. July 17, 1926. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Buffalo Women to Hear Governor Nellie Ross". The Buffalo News. November 16, 1926. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Miss Amy Juengling Remodels Farm House Near Eden Where Youngsters May Live Healthy Lives". The Buffalo News. June 25, 1929. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Hamburg". The Angola Record. Angola, New York. November 12, 1931. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Forced Centralization of Schools is Opposed". The Buffalo News. Albany, New York. March 30, 1939. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ "Lake Street Presbyterian Church". The Sun and the Erie County Independent. January 22, 1925. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
- ^ a b "Amy R. Juengling, Rights Pioneer". The Buffalo News. January 17, 1974. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com (subscription required) .
Bibliography
[edit]- Haggerty, Donald L., ed. (1981). National Woman's Party Papers: The Suffrage Years, 1913–1920 (PDF). Sanford, North Carolina: Microfilming Corporation of America. ISBN 978-0-667-00627-0. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 2, 2025.
- Haynes Irwin, Inez (1921). The Story of the Woman's Party. New York, New York: Harcourt Brace, & Co. Archived from the original on February 2, 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- Juengling, Amy R. (October 1925). Sanger, Margaret (ed.). "On Rustic Trails and City Streets". Birth Control Review. Vol. 9, no. 10. p. 283–284.
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