Anna Howard Shaw followed Susan B. Anthony as president of NAWSA, 1904-15, encompassing most of Wilson’s first term. During those years eight states granted full or partial women’s suffrage, but Shaw’s deference to the state method—imagine making “former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!” she cried in New Orleans—eventually caused Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, whom she appointed to run NAWSA’s Congressional Committee, to split with the organization. Here she is shown as NAWSA’s honorary president, c. 1917.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Stereograph Collection.
Date: c. 1917
Anna Howard Shaw followed Susan B. Anthony as president of NAWSA, 1904-15, encompassing most of Wilson’s first term. During those years eight states granted full or partial women’s suffrage, but Shaw’s deference to the state method—imagine making “former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!” she cried in New Orleans—eventually caused Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, whom she appointed to run NAWSA’s Congressional Committee, to split with the organization. Here she is shown as NAWSA’s honorary president, c. 1917.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Stereograph Collection.
Date: c. 1917