s before committees--Stubborn opposition--Votes
and defeats--Support of parties finally gained--Planks in their
platforms--Amendment submitted to Legislatures--Strenuous efforts
for ratification--Victory at last.

CHAPTER XXI.

VARIOUS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATIONS 656

Federal Suffrage Association--U. S. Elections Bill--College
Women's League--Friends' Equal Rights Association--Mississippi
Valley Conferences--Southern Women's Conference--International
and National Men's Leagues--National Woman's Party--Women's
Anti-Suffrage Association--Man Suffrage Association.

CHAPTER XXII.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 683

Formed in St. Louis--Mrs. Catt outlines its work--Its eight
departments presented--Perfected and officers elected at
Chicago--Reports from department chairmen--Laws for women
demanded--Citizenship Schools--League asks planks in national
political conventions--Visits presidential candidates.

CHAPTER XXIII.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS 702

Long struggle for planks in national platforms--Refused for
nearly fifty years--Woman suffrage by State action approved in
1916--Federal Amendment endorsed in 1920--Graphic story of
opposition.

CHAPTER XXIV.

WAR SERVICE OF ORGANIZED SUFFRAGISTS 720

Mrs. Catt calls Executive Council of One Hundred to
Washington--It sends letter to President Wilson offering services
of National American Association--Organizes four departments of
work--Mass meeting held, Secretary of War Baker speaks--President
expresses approval of the association's work--Woman's Committee
of Government Council of National Defense formed, Dr. Shaw
appointed chairman, Mrs. Catt and other leading suffragists made
members--Reports of department heads at National Suffrage
convention--Report of association's Oversea Hospitals, their
important work--Anti-suffrage women attack suffrage
leaders--After Armistice Mrs. Catt calls meeting in New York,
which requests President Wilson to appoint women delegates to
Peace Conference in Paris--Woman's Committee of National Defense
ends work--Secretary Baker's tribute to Dr. Shaw.

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