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The New York Times, November 23, 1917 – Front Page – The New York State Woman Suffrage Party plans to fight candidates for Congress and the Legislature who do not endorse the Federal Suffrage Amendment, but they will put loyalty to the country during wartime first. read clipping

 

The New York Times, November 23, 1917 – Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, past president of NAWSA, repudiates the picketers from the National Woman’s Party. To resolve the current issues around the picketers, she suggests an independent investigation of the brutality charges of the jailed picketers and a pardon for those who are jailed. read clipping

 

The New York Times, November 25, 1917 – Lucy Burns and other jailed picketers testify in court about the brutal treatment in the workhouse. read clipping

 

The New York Times, November 25, 1917 – A federal judge orders twenty-five of the suffragists to be moved from the Occoquan Workhouse to a Washington jail where Alice Paul and others are being force-fed. Two of the women are paroled because they are near collapse as a result of their treatment in the workhouse. read clipping

 

The New York Times, November 26, 1917 – Carrie Chapman Catt begins ramping up for a massive campaign for the Federal Suffrage Amendment. read clipping

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