TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| Preface | iii |
| Introduction | xv |
| Foreword | 1 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Founding of National Association | 3 |
| Work of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for an amendment to the Federal Constitution, to State constitutions and for other reforms — Annual convention in Minneapolis in 1901 — Mrs. Stanton's address on the Church, the Bible and Woman Suffrage — Miss Anthony's and others' opinions — President's address of Mrs. Catt on obstacles — Dr. Shaw's vice-president's address on Anti-suffragists — Plan for national work — Miss Anthony's report on work with Congress — Protest against "regulated vice" in Manila — New York Sun and Woman Suffrage — Discriminating against women in government departments — A tribute to the national suffrage conventions. | |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The National Suffrage Convention of 1902 | 23 |
| Meeting in Washington, D. C, of committee to form an International Woman Suffrage Alliance — Greeting of Clara Barton to foreign delegates — Letters from Norway and Germany — Response of Mrs. Friedland of Russia — Mrs. Catt's president's address on World Progress leading to the International Alliance — Mrs. Stanton's address on Educated Suffrage — Miss Anthony's introduction of Pioneers — Addresses on The New Woman and The New Man — Women in New York municipal election — Miss Anthony's 82d birthday — Mr. Blackwell on Presidential suffrage for women — Hearings before committees of Congress — Addresses of Norwegian and Australian delegates before Senate Committee — Dr. Shaw's plea for a committee to investigate conditions in Equal Suffrage States — Speeches of Russian, Swedish and English delegates — Mrs. Catt's insistence on a Congressional Committee to investigate the working of woman suffrage where it exists. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| National Suffrage Convention of 1903 | 55 |
| Very successful meeting in New Orleans — Description of Picayune — Ovation to Miss Anthony and Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick — Dr. Shaw's response — Mrs. Catt's president's address — Times Democrat brings up Negro Question, official board of the association states its position — Visit to colored women's club — Reports of officers — Presidential suffrage for women — Colby's report mi Industrial Problems relating to Women and Children — Addresses of Dr. Henry Dixon Bruns, M. J. Sanders, president of Progressive Union — Memorial service for Mrs. Stanton — Speeches on Educational Qualification for voting — “Dorothy Dix" on The Woman with the Broom — Address of Edwin Merrick — Belle Kearney on Woman Suffrage to insure White Supremacy — Tribute to Misses Kate and Jean Gordon. | |
