Published in 1917 and dedicated to Congress and the state legislatures, this book explains why suffragists turned to a federal amendment. Catt and her colleagues show how state constitutions, election laws and referenda blocked women’s votes, recount the campaigns of 1916, and answer the argument from states’ rights.
A key document of the final push for the Nineteenth Amendment, from the leader of the national suffrage movement. Download the free EPUB.