What Is the Women's Rights Movement? by Deborah Hopkinson & Who HQ & Laurie A. Conley

What Is the Women's Rights Movement? by Deborah Hopkinson & Who HQ & Laurie A. Conley

Author:Deborah Hopkinson & Who HQ & Laurie A. Conley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2018-10-15T16:00:00+00:00


Carrie Chapman Catt and her NAWSA group visited President Wilson. The women urged him to speak for an amendment to the Constitution.

Later that month, Alice—weak from hunger—and other prisoners were released from jail with no explanation.

All these events convinced President Wilson to take action. In January 1918, in Congress, he announced his support for a suffrage amendment to the Constitution. With that, Congress began to move forward. Even then, it took another year to win the votes needed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.



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