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THE HISTORY
of
Woman Suffrage.
EDITED BY
IDA HUSTED HARPER
ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATE AND PHOTOGRAVURE
ENGRAVINGS
IN SIX VOLUMES
VOLUME V
1900-1920
AFTER SEVENTY YEARS CAME THE VICTORY
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
Copyright, 1922, by
National American Woman Suffrage Association
DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW.Vice-President-at-Large of the National American Woman SuffrageAssociation 1892-1904 and President 1904-1915.
PREFACE
The History of Woman Suffrage is comprised in six volumes averagingabout one thousand pages each, of which the two just finished are thelast. While it is primarily a history of this great movement in theUnited States it covers to some degree that of the whole world. Thechapter on Great Britain was prepared for Volume VI by Mrs. MillicentGarrett Fawcett, leader of the movement there for half a century. Theaccounts of the gaining of woman suffrage in other countries come fromthe highest authorities. Their contest was short compared to that inthe two oldest countries on the globe with a constitutional form ofgovernment—the United States and Great Britain—and in the former itbegan nearly twenty years earlier than in the latter. The effort ofwomen in the "greatest republic on earth" to obtain a voice in itsgovernment began in 1848 and ended in complete victory in 1920. InGreat Britain it is not yet entirely accomplished, although in all hercolonies except South Africa women vote on the same terms as men.
Doubtless other histories of this world wide movement will be writtenbut at present the student will find himself largely confined to thesesix volumes. This is especially true of the United States and many ofthe documents of the earliest period would have been lost for all timeif they had not been preserved in the first three volumes. These alsocontain much information which does not exist elsewhere regarding thestruggle of women for other rights besides that of the franchise. Thatthe materials were collected and cared for until they could beutilized was due to Miss Susan B. Anthony's appreciation of theirvalue. The story of the trials and tribulations of preparing thosevolumes during ten years is told in Volume II, page 612, and in thePreface of Volume IV. They were written and edited pri