House Rejects Votes For Women
January 12, 2007 by Laura | Trackback URI
House Defeats Equal Suffrage
Refuses to Submit Amendments to the States
Party lines were not strictly drawn in the fight, though Democratic Leader Underwood, voicing the attitude of his party that suffrage is a state issue, strongly opposed the resolution, while Republican Leader Mann was one of the chief speakers of the suffragists.
This article was written in 1915, and women didn’t get the vote until the 19th Amendment was enacted in 1920. It’s hard to believe this was less than one hundred years ago.
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