In 1901, Louisiana suffrage leader Kate Gordon—who supported votes for white women only—became an officer of NAWSA and joined its board. Gordon urged holding the group’s 1903 convention in New Orleans, where Black women were deliberately excluded. Later she split with the group over the Anthony Amendment, demanding state-only suffrage, but during the Wilson years (when this picture was taken, c. 1915) she again collaborated with NAWSA, this time to prevent federal enforcement of voting rights.
Source photograph: Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Records of the National Woman’s Party.
Date: c. 1915 (1913–17)
In 1901, Louisiana suffrage leader Kate Gordon—who supported votes for white women only—became an officer of NAWSA and joined its board. Gordon urged holding the group’s 1903 convention in New Orleans, where Black women were deliberately excluded. Later she split with the group over the Anthony Amendment, demanding state-only suffrage, but during the Wilson years (when this picture was taken, c. 1915) she again collaborated with NAWSA, this time to prevent federal enforcement of voting rights.
Source photograph: Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Records of the National Woman’s Party.
Date: c. 1915 (1913–17)