Letter to Edwin Webb from Carrie Chapman Catt
1/5/1918
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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."
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This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives.
National Archives Identifier: 74884353
Full Citation: Letter to Edwin Webb from Carrie Chapman Catt Comparing Negro Rights with the Rights of Southern White Women; 1/5/1918; Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary during the 65th Congress; (HR65A-H8.14); Petitions and Memorials Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 6/3/1813 - 1998; Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Record Group 233; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/webb-carrie-catt, September 7, 2024]Activities that use this document
- The 19th Amendment and the Road to Universal Suffrage
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