Carrie Chapman Catt, who replaced Susan B. Anthony as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900, sent this letter to Congressman Edwin Y. Webb of North Carolina. She suggested that granting white women the vote would neutralize the vote of the “negro population.” She wrote: “If the South is really in earnest in its desire to maintain white supremacy, its surest tactics is to indorse [sic] the Federal Suffrage Amendment.”
This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2017 summer workshop in Washington, D.C.
