apter will be found an
account of other organizations besides the National American
Association that worked to obtain the vote for women and of those that
worked against it. A full description is given of the organizing of
the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and its congresses in the
various cities of Europe.
Volumes V and VI take up the history of the contest in the United
States from the beginning of the present century to Aug. 26, 1920,
when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby proclaimed that the 19th
Amendment, submitted by Congress on June 4, 1919, had been ratified by
the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States and was now a part of
the National Constitution. This ended a movement for political liberty
which had continued without cessation for over seventy years. The
story closes with uncounted millions of women in all parts of the
world possessing the same voice as men in their government and
enjoying the same rights as citizens.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, pages 1210, 1256, 1269.
Placing in libraries, 1279 to 1282. Bequeathed to National Suffrage
Association, History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V, page 205.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. PAGE
FOUNDING OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 3
Work of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for an
amendment to the Federal Constitution, to State constitutions and
for other reforms--Annual convention in Minneapolis in 1901--Mrs.
Stanton's address on the Church, the Bible and Woman
Suffrage--Miss Anthony's and others' opinions--President's address
of Mrs. Catt on obstacles--Dr. Shaw's vice-president's address on
Anti-suffragists--Plan for national work--Miss Anthony's report on
work with Congress--Protest against "regulated vice" in
Manila--New York _Sun_ and Woman Suffrage--Discriminating against
women in government departments--A tribute to the national
suffrage conventions.
CHAPTER II.
THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1902 23
Meeting in Washington, D.C., of committee to form an
International Woman Suffrage Alliance--Greeting of Clara Barton
to foreign delegates--Letters from Norway and Germany--Response
of Mrs. Friedland of Russia--Mrs. Catt's president's address on
World Progress leading to the International Alliance--Mrs.
Stanton's address on Educated Suffrage--
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