Morris, Martha D.

Martha D. Morris was elected to the School Board in Vineland, New Jersey in 1914. Morris was involved in local women's groups. One source reported that Vineland women had marched enmasse to the polls to vote for Morris.  Although women in New Jersey did not have any voting rights, including school suffrage, the women of Vineland had insisted on voting, with their on ballot box, as a sympolic gesture from the late 1860s onward.