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| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| League of Women Voters | 683 |
| Formed in St. Louis — Mrs. Catt outlines its work — Its eight departments presented — Perfected and officers elected at Chicago — Reports from department chairmen — Laws for women demanded — Citizenship Schools — League asks planks in national political conventions — Visits presidential candidates. | |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| Woman Suffrage in Presidential Conventions | 702 |
| Long struggle for planks in national platforms — Refused for nearly fifty years — Woman suffrage by State action approved in 1916 — Federal Amendment endorsed in 1920 — Graphic story of opposition. | |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |
| War Service of Organized Suffragists | 720 |
| Mrs. Catt calls Executive Council of One Hundred to Washington — It sends letter to President Wilson offering services of National American Association Organizes four departments of work — Mass meeting held, Secretary of War Baker speaks — President expresses approval of the association's work Woman's Committee of Government Council of National Defense formed, Dr. Shaw appointed chairman, Mrs. Catt and other leading suffragists made members — Reports of department heads at National Suffrage convention Report of association's Oversea Hospitals, their important work — Anti-suffrage women attack suffrage leaders — After Armistice Mrs. Catt calls meeting in New York, which requests President Wilson to appoint women delegates to Peace Conference in Paris — Woman's Committee of National Defense ends work — Secretary Baker's tribute to Dr. Shaw. | |
| APPENDIX. | |
| Appendix | 741 |
| Moncure D. Conway's address at Mrs. Stanton's funeral — Miss Anthony's last letter to her — National American Association's Declaration of Principles — Memorial building in Rochester for Miss Anthony — Speech of Mrs. Catt at Senate hearing in 1910 — Same in 1915 — Review of Shafroth Federal Suffrage Amendment — Different National headquarters — Bequest of Mrs. Frank Leslie — Memorial tributes to Dr. Shaw — Present Status of National American Association. | |
| INDEX. | |
| Index | 765 |
