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The New York Times, November 8, 1917 – Front Page – While celebrating the suffrage victory in New York, Carrie Chapman Catt pledges that NAWSA will now focus on the Federal Suffrage Amendment so women across America have the right to vote. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw says Susan B. Anthony had predicted in 1906 that women would win the right to vote by 1920, which will be the 100th anniversary of her birth. read clipping

The New York Times, November 8, 1917 – In the Occoquan Workhouse, another member of the National Woman’s Party joins Alice Paul in a hunger strike. read clipping 

The New York Times, November 8, 1917 – Carrie Chapman Catt and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw will lead a delegation to meet with President Wilson in the White House to urge him to back the Federal Suffrage Amendment. In twelve states women now have full suffrage: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, California, Arizona, Wyoming, Kansas, and New York. Eight states have granted women the right to vote in certain elections: Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, North Dakota, Michigan, Rhode Island, Nebraska, and Arkansas. However, the Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled the suffrage law in that state was unconstitutional. And, although the Ohio State Legislature gave women the right to vote, that law was overturned in the recent voter referendum. read clipping