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Carrie Chapman Catt With Flags of 22 Nations
Carrie Chapman Catt With Flags of 22 Nations

Carrie Chapman Catt With Flags of 22 Nations

Courtesy Library of Congress. Photographer Harris & Ewing.
In honor of her international work for peace and for woman suffrage, Carrie Chapman Catt was here shown standing with flags of twenty-two nations.

Carrie Chapman Catt helped found the International Alliance of Women, which exists today. It was first founded in 1904 as the International Woman Suffrage Alliance to work for woman's suffrage. In the 1920s the name changed to International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, and then to its current name, which in full is International Alliance of Women: Equal Rights - Equal Responsibilities. Catt served as its president from 1904 to 1923.

Carrie Chapman Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during key years near the passage of the federal suffrage amendment. She also was a founder of the League of Women Voters, which evolved from the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

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