Existing comment:
"This is not a question in which the State's Rights bogy is involved"
Texas Woman Suffrage Association President Minnie Fisher Cunningham sent Congress this pro-suffrage petition in 1916. She argued that woman suffrage would not threaten Southern states' rights because suffragists sought no other changes to voting qualifications besides the "removal of sex discrimination." Therefore, Southern states' laws designed to prevent people of color from voting would not be threatened. |