Alice Stone Blackwell

In 1917, as part of their work in pressuring for a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) published a collection of pamphlets that had been written by their organization and by other famous proponents of women’s suffrage. Alice Stone Blackwell, a prominent member of NAWSA, wrote one such pamphlet that was included in the collection. Her pamphlet is meant to provide advocates for female enfranchisement a comprehensive list of the primary objections that had been made to giving women the right to vote. Filled with clever and memorable anecdotes, Alice Stone Blackwell’s pamphlet provides suffragists with responses to each of these objections to help them prepare for public speeches and debates in favor of women’s suffrage.

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