 | The New York Times, May 14, 1917 – Carrie Chapman Catt says the US cannot claim that the World War is “making the world safe for democracy”, as long as the US denies the right to vote to women. Meanwhile, in Ohio, the anti-suffrage groups have successfully added a referendum to the November ballot to try to nullify the recent suffrage law signed by Governor Cox of Ohio. read clipping The New York Times, May 15, 1917 – For the first time since the US entered the World War, President Wilson meets with a suffrage delegation, which consists of politicians and suffragists. The delegation is supposed to be bi-partisan, but the male politicians from Wilson’s own Democratic Party fail to show. read clipping The New York Times, May 17, 1917 – President Wilson suggests the formation of a committee in the US House of Representatives to address suffrage. The US Senate already has a suffrage committee. read clipping The New York Times, May 20, 1917 – Mrs. Belva A. B. Lockwood, the first woman to practice before the Supreme Court and a pioneer for suffrage, dies at age 86. She won a $5 million settlement in a case involving the Cherokee people versus the US Government. She ran for president of the United States in 1884 as a candidate of the National Equal Rights Party. read clipping |  |
