Author Archives

No Sunday rest for National American Woman Suffrage Association National Board members or the 48 State representatives who are spending today busily planning what to say to President Wilson tomorrow at the White House. The meeting has become even more important amid a growing consensus that three days of testimony Read more

Persistence pays! After fifty-five National American Woman Suffrage Association convention delegates vowed to stay in Washington, D.C., all winter if that was what had to be done in order to meet with President Wilson, he has agreed to receive a N.A.W.S.A. deputation at the White House at 1 p.m. on the day after Read more

"We are going to see President Wilson if it takes all Winter." That was the statement given out today by the National American Woman Suffrage Association on the final day of its convention here in Washington, D.C. After Ruth Hanna McCormick and Madeline McDowell Breckenridge were unable to arrange a meeting with Read more

Unusually strong words on this, the sixth day of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's convention in Washington, D.C. In a speech to the delegates, the usually tactful Carrie Chapman Catt, president of N.A.W.S.A. from 1900 to 1904, declared that women demanded the vote nationwide without delay, and " Read more

From morning until night, an active, 12-hour workday for everyone here on the fifth day of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's 45th annual convention. The first business of the day was actually conducted outside the convention hall, as many prominent and articulate advocates for our cause went to Read more

The treatment of women by the criminal justice system was denounced today by Louise DeKoven Bowen on the fourth day of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's convention. A close friend of Jane Addams, and Treasurer of Hull House in Chicago, Bowen pointed out a lack of female police officers and women Read more

Optimism continues to abound at the National American Woman Suffrage Association's convention! According to Alice Paul, who heads N.A.W.S.A.'s Congressional Committee as well as her own Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, not many more of these gatherings will have to be held, because victory is rapidly Read more

Today's session of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's convention got off to a rousing start with the unfurling of a giant banner reading: "We Demand An Amendment To The United States Constitution Enfranchising Women." This was immediately followed by thunderous applause, stirring speeches, and a Read more

An atmosphere of optimism and great enthusiasm is greeting the delegates arriving for the 45th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The optimism is justified by the rapid progress woman suffrage has been making recently, and the enthusiasm is generated by the presence of many Read more

A second consecutive day of victory for the "Silent Sentinels" who have been picketing along the White House fence in favor of woman suffrage! The last of the imprisoned pickets had their sentences commuted today by the same judge who had originally imposed the outrageously long prison terms on them. Yesterday, Read more