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New York Times article describing debate within and between various Arkansas women's organizations, and how the attempt to gain female suffrage would be influenced by questions of race. WOULD BAR NEGRO WOMEN. Race Issue Raised in the Fight for Suffrage in Arkansas Special to The New York Times. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 19.- Agita- tion for women suffrage in this State has brought forth a new phase of that prob- lem- the race issue. Those who are seek- ing the influence of woment for an amend- ment to the State Constitution to provide for the extension of the ballot have been met with arguments that such a measure would again bring to the front the negro question. Prominent women and men high in politics are therefore exerting pressure to balk the suffragists. An instance of the feeling was given at a recent meeting of a district federation fo women's clubs at Augusta. Members of the club which was entertaining the convention arranged a table covered with suffragist literature and a group of pic- tures of leaders in the movement. Other members, however, insisted on the re- moval of the pictures and literature, de- claring that they did not intend to have the negro women of the country placed on an equality with them, politically or otherwise. When a set of resolutions was brought forward in the convention declaring for woman suffrage twenty delegates refused to vote, and of the nine who did vote four were agains the measure. In consequence...

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Land of (Unequal) Opportunity

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