 | The New York Times, September 27, 1918 – Front Page – A filibuster in the US Senate delays the vote on the Suffrage Amendment. The Southern Democrats want to bar black women from voting. The senator who was appointed to replace Senator J. H. Gallinger, who died in August, comes out against the Amendment. Senator Gallinger had been a strong supporter of suffrage. read clipping The New York Times, September 28, 1918 – Suffrage leaders say they are still one vote short of the sixty-four votes needed to achieve a two-thirds majority. read clipping The New York Times, September 29, 1918 – Front Page – Senator Benet, a Democrat from South Carolina who had been counted as a supporter of the Suffrage Amendment, announces that he will vote against it. read clipping |  |
