Loudest opponents of women’s vote were…women

On a Friday afternoon in April 1909, a group gathered in lower Manhattan to debate women’s right to vote (a right extended at that time only to women in select Western states, except for a few others that allowed women to vote in school-related elections).

On a Friday afternoon in April 1909, a group gathered in lower Manhattan to debate women’s right to vote (a right extended at that time only to women in select Western states, except for a few others that allowed women to vote in school-related elections).