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Brutal Treatment of Women Suffragists at Occoquan Workhouse
The story of the treatment at Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 of the woman suffrage militants arrested for protesting outside the White House.

August 26, 1920
The end of the long battle: the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in August, 1920, granted women the right to vote in all United States elections.

Why We Don't Want Men to Vote
In 1915, Alice Duer Miller published this parody of the critics of woman suffrage efforts.

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