On Feb. 10, 1919, the amendment designed to give all American women the vote failed in the Democratic-controlled Senate, for the second time by only one vote. New Jersey’s Alice Paul, head of the National Woman’s Party, blamed President Wilson for not persuading more Democratic senators to vote yes. Her critics claimed her tactics of picketing and demonstrating in front of the White House for the amendment caused its failure and urged her to stop annoying the great man.
The New York Times of Feb. 11 predicted that when the new Congress met in March, with a Republican majority, things…
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