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Washingtonians appeal for voting rights
This 1944 pamphlet argued that the District had a population larger than five of the states yet had no voice in the Federal Government or control over its own affairs. The pamphlet called this disfranchisement "repugnant to the spirit of American liberty." Several more decades passed before women and men in "Voteless Washington" obtained any of the voting rights they sought. |