Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-05-07

work on a general sort of promise by members
of congress that after the war Justice would be
done them" When Mrs. Anthony demanded that
women be given equal rights with the newly.en-
franchsed black men, she got the answer This
Is the ncgro'S hour"
In 1860 were formed two national organiza-
tons: National Woman Suffrage association with
Mrs. stanton and Miss Anthony leaders and head
quarters in New York; American Woman Suffrage
association with Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward
Howe and Lucy Stone leaders and headquarters in
Boston. The line Of division this: The for
mer wished to concentrate on the passage Of a
constitutional amendment the latter was in favor
Of obtaining the suffrage through amendments to
state constitutions
one day in 1872 painly.dressed woman wear.
ing her dark hair brushed smoothly over her ears
and coied In a knot low on her neck was seated In
the front end of street car in Rochester n. Y.
The sheriff stood in the rear of the car.
Fare" demanded the conductor approaching
the woman passenger.
q am prisoner" she said 81 am travelling
under the escort of the sheriff He is in the other
end Of the ear and you will have to ask him for
my fare"
This woman Susan b Anthony. For sew
eral years she had been trying to force an inter-
probation Of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments which would allow women to vote Her
arrest was the result of her attempt to vote She
was tried and fined 500 She refused to pay the
fine and never did pay, and she was not sent TO
Jail
In 1879 Miss Anthony drafted the amendment
to the Constitution which has now been ratified.
In 1878 the amendment was introduced in the
senate by Senator Sargent of California It was
defeated in 1887 and thereafter not even de-
bated in congress until 1914.
During the years the constitutional amend.
ment campaign was making no progress the wom-
en- won many victories in the States They Sc
cured full suffrage in Wyoming C1S69). Colorado
Utah and Idaho $500, Washington C9lO), CALI
fornia Odd Kansas. Arizona and Oregon
Q9l2), Montana and Nevada Q914), New York
Q91O, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Michigan
Q01S) They won presidential suffrage In ILL
nois 1913 Nebraska, Rhode Island and North
Dakota (1917), Iowa. Wisconsin, Indiana Maine
Minnesota, Missouri and Tennessee 1910 and
Kentucky O920) Partial suffrage prevails in
many of the states. In Illinois, for example
women vote for candidates for all Offices not
mel toned by the state constitution
In 1890 the two organizations were united I'M
der the name Of National American Woman SUI.
frage association and work pushed along
nOtn lines OF PHuPdNOT. AlTS. stanton was preSi-
dent until 1892 Miss Anthony served until 1900,
.resgnlng at the age eighty Mrs Carrie Chap
man Gait was its head, 1900-1904. DR.. Anna How.
ard Shaw, recently deceased, and possibly best
loved of all the leaders--a woman of transcendent
gifts and eloquence-was president until 1915
Mrs. Gait was then again chosen. Mrs. Frank Les
lie left large legacy to Mrs Gait to be used In the
work.
At the Chicago convention last February the
National American Woman Suffrage association
became the League of Women Voters Mrs.
Gait. who Is also the head of the international
Woman Suffrage alliance. which she founded In
1904, is honorary chairman; Mrs. Maud Wood
Park is chairman: Mrs. Richard Edwards of In
DIANA treasurer; Mrs. Scion Jacobs of Alabama.
secretary, and there is board of regional di.
rectOrs.
In 1912 the association formed congressional
committee. with headquarters in Washington, and
with some Of its best trained and brainiest women
in charge.