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Title: The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI

Author: Various

Editor: Ida Husted Harper

Release Date: September 21, 2009 [EBook #30051]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. President of the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance from its founding in 1904 and of
the National American Woman Suffrage Association 1900-1904 and from
1915.

Standing in an automobile on the way from the railroad station in New
York after the campaign for ratification of the Federal Suffrage
Amendment was completed by Tennessee. (See page 652.)]

THE HISTORY

OF

WOMAN SUFFRAGE

EDITED BY

IDA HUSTED HARPER

ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATE AND PHOTOGRAVURE
ENGRAVINGS

_IN SIX VOLUMES_

VOLUME VI

1900--1920

IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY EVERY CITIZEN HAS A VOTE

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

INTRODUCTION

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE STATES OF THE UNION

In the preceding volume a full account is given of the forty years'
continuous effort to secure an amendment to the Federal Constitution
which would confer full suffrage on all the women of the United States
possessing the qualifications required of men. Antedating the
beginning of this effort by thirty years was the attempt to
enfranchise women through the amendment of State constitutions. After
1869 the two movements were contemporaneous, each dependent on the
other, the latter a long process but essential in some