Carrie Chapman Catt · November 1917
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Carrie Chapman Catt · November 1917
Occasion. Open address to Congress, November 1917, mailed by NAWSA; she did not deliver it from the House floor. New York had just enfranchised women on November 6; the United States is at war under Wilson's democracy rhetoric. She does not name the Silent Sentinels being arrested at the White House.
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