 | Starting Again — After suffrage defeats in the state elections in both 1915 and 1916, Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul ramp up their efforts. The New York Times, November 20, 1916 – Now that the election is over, NAWSA plans massive lobbying of congressmen regarding a Federal Suffrage Amendment. read clipping The New York Times, November 21, 1916 – The New York State Woman Suffrage Party, affiliated with NAWSA, is ramping up to fight for suffrage in New York State in 1917. read clipping The New York Times, November 22, 1916 – Editorial – The editor of The New York Times predicts that suffrage will be defeated again in New York, as it was in 1915. read clipping The New York Times, November 23, 1916 – Carrie Chapman Catt speaks at the convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, and is able to generate $300,000 in pledges to fight for suffrage in New York. read clipping The New York Times, November 26, 1916 – Front Page – Inez Milholland Boissevain, who led the massive Washington and New York suffrage parades
in 1913, dies in California. Ten weeks earlier, on behalf of the Woman's Party, she had been campaigning for the Susan B. Anthony Amendment and against |  |
