Minnie Fisher Cunningham, president of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, sent this petition in support of passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, the name given to the 19th Amendment. In it she stated that “taxation without representation is tyranny!”
Cunningham also wrote “this is not a question in which the State’s Rights bogy is involved.” She argued that woman suffrage would not threaten Southern states’ rights because suffragists sought no other changes to voting qualifications besides the “removal of sex discrimination.” In other words, Southern states’ laws designed to prevent people of color from voting would not be threatened.
