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American Democracy?
World Wars I and II focused American attention on the gap between the nation’s assertions of democracy and the discrimination faced by women, African Americans, and other minorities. Voting rights became civil rights.
Woman suffrage picket, 1917
In 1917 suffragists compared President Woodrow Wilson to the German Kaiser and point out the hypocrisy of his pro-democracy rhetoric when American women could not vote. |