In this letter, Alice Wadsworth (signed Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr.), of The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, attempts to connect suffragists with socialists, and objects to the Federal suffrage amendment (which would become the 19th Amendment).
During the women’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s, varying motives in different regions of the country fueled an organized anti-suffrage movement. Many of them stemmed from fears about women’s collective political power as a voting bloc. Formed in 1911, the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage had branches in 25 states by 1916.
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