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A critical victory in the East
Working-class suffragists scored a critical win when they helped to convince working-class men to vote for adding woman suffrage to New York's state constitution in 1917. Success in New York, the first eastern state to enfranchise women, generated hope that a Federal amendment would pass. This political cartoon shows a suffragist with the "Tammany Tiger," which represents New York City's political machine. Originally opposed to woman suffrage, Tammany Hall backed it in 1917. |