Existing comment:
"My father trained me in my childhood days to expect this right"
Some women fought for decades -- as many as 50 years -- for their right to vote. Mary O. Stevens, a former Civil War nurse, sent this letter to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Edwin Webb in 1917 stating, "I have given my help to the agitation . . . a good many years. It seems as if the time was come for this great act of justice." |