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This was part of the "Woman's Committee Council of National Defense," a government established advisory committee headed by suffragist Dr. Anna Shaw to coordinate women’s efforts in WWI. Shaw was chosen by Carrie Chapman Catt to lead the effort, signifying suffrage support for America’s participation in in the war; that participation was often referred to as a reason for suffrage, by President Wilson and others.
c. 1917-1919
Clipping : "7000 Gather in and Around Metropolitan Opera House to Hear Women Leaders Sound Suffrage Appeal." November 25, 1912
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Crane, Caroline Bartlett, 1858-1935
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention
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Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Women--Suffrage--Michigan
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Full page series of articles on the 44th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention held in Philadelphia November 21-26, 1912. Articles detail speeches by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop, of Chicago, who spoke on women's suffrage to more than 5,000 people in Metropolitan Opera House.
11/25/12
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