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Carrie Chapman Catt
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The Will of the People - March 1911
January 1, 1911
THE ALUMNUS IOWA STATE COLLEGE VOL. VI. MARCH 1911. NO. 6 The Will of the People CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, ’80. The civilized world, sooner or later, must accept, and must establish woman suffrage for one unanswerably logical reason: the “will of the people” is surely destined to be the future sovereign of the world, and women are people. The evolution of society, leading unmistakably to governments “of the people, by the people and for the people,” has made a steady march forward since the days of the English Magna Charta, […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Why the Southeastern States of the U.S. Refused Suffrage to Women - 1920
When the 19th Amendment finally takes its place as part of the Constitution, the suffrage ratification map will show a white nation with a big black spot in the South East. For many a year to come, students of history and democracy the world around will ask in wonder – why did these states refuse suffrage to women? The answer is a sensitive sore subject; it is one Americans do not talk about, read about or think about if they can avoid it. In fact, it is the greatest gawkiest […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Findings of the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War - 1925
January 18, 1925
FINDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON THE CAUSE AND CURE OF WAR HELD IN WASHINGTON D.C. JANUARY 18-24, 1925 Carrie Chapman Catt, General Chairman, 171 Madison Ave., New York Josephine Schain, 1010 Grand Central Terminal Building, New York CAUSES OF WAR The following report was unanimously adopted by the Conference. We, the Committee on Findings on the Causes of War beg leave to bring in the following report: The committee has based this report upon the Causes of War as developed by the different speakers at this Conference and as brought […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Votes for All - Nov. 1917
November 1, 1917
This article by Catt appeared in the November 1917 issue of The Crisis, the monthly publication of the NAACP. Over in Europe the greatest war that history has ever known is shaking the foundations of kingdoms and empires. Millions of men have been blown to atoms in the Titanic struggle. Billions of dollars have been burned up in the smoke and fire of its battles. The whole world is locked in the struggle and the struggle is to the death. What is it all about? What is the idea underneath […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Woman Suffrage by Federal Amendment, Chapter VI: Objections to the Federal Amendment - Jan. 1917
January 1, 1917
This chapter written by Catt appeared in the book "Woman Suffrage by Federal Amendment" (1917), a collection of essays that focuses on the various arguments for and against woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment rather than by individual states. In this chapter, Catt uses population statistics to argue for universal suffrage. I. STATES RIGHTS. This objection is Urged by ALL Opponents of Woman Suffrage, but is Either a Barricade to Defend Themselves from the Necessity of Exposing the Fact That They Have no Reasons, or is a Play to Postpone […]