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"Help to break the fetters of Ignorance and set Justice free"
Enid M. Pierce, a school teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, sent this petition to Rep. Ambrose Kennedy in July 1916, urging his support for a woman suffrage amendment. Her letter makes an impassioned plea against depriving women the right to vote on the basis of their sex, which she compares to the unjust disfranchisement of African American men in the South because of their race. |