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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: August 9, 2015
Caption: Carrie Chapman Catt
Additional Description: This 1927 portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt by Mary Eliot Foot hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

“Carrie Chapman Catt’s organizational talents are credited with making the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) an effective force in winning the struggle for women’s right to vote. In NAWSA, she worked with such leaders as Susan B. Anthony to win the franchise state by state, and also for a constitutional amendment. Initially condemning America’s flood of immigrants, whom she believed were influenced by their paternalistic Old World cultures to vote against women’s suffrage, Catt eventually discarded such xenophobic simplifications, founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, and became a crusader for internationalism and world peace. In 1900 she replaced Anthony as president of NAWSA and was again elected president in 1915, leading the organization during the successful passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, which guaranteed all American women the right to vote.” — National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: August 10, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p321054
File Size: 1.351 Megabytes

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