Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a leader in NAWSA’s Congressional Union and subsequently in the National Woman’s Party. At a private meeting with Wilson shortly before the 1916 election, she asked the president point-blank whether he could support the Anthony Amendment. Wilson replied that he could not—and “exploded” the idea that states’ rights was the reason. “It is the negro question,” he explained, “that keeps my party from doing as you wish.”
Source photograph: Library of Congress.
Date: c. 1912
Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a leader in NAWSA’s Congressional Union and subsequently in the National Woman’s Party. At a private meeting with Wilson shortly before the 1916 election, she asked the president point-blank whether he could support the Anthony Amendment. Wilson replied that he could not—and “exploded” the idea that states’ rights was the reason. “It is the negro question,” he explained, “that keeps my party from doing as you wish.”
Source photograph: Library of Congress.
Date: c. 1912