Letter from the executive committee of the Alabama Woman's Anti-Ratification League to a joint session of the Alabama Legislature.
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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
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In the message, the League members explain their opposition to the women's suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution ("this device of Northern Abolitionists"): "We oppose the adoption of this amendment because the vast majority of the white women of Alabama do not want it; we oppose it because we believe that women can exercise a better and greater influence upon the race, and contribute more fully to its development and its progress by remaining supreme in their own peculiar sphere than they can by invading yours; because we believe that to adopt it will nullify the work of those wise and patriotic men who have purified the ballot box from the contamination of negro votes, or from the fraud necessary to keep them out because we believe in your and trust you, and know that in the laws which you make, and in your administration of the public affairs, we will find a solicitude for our rights and our happiness which we ourselves could not exceed." The members of the League's Executive Committee are listed after the statement. Among them is Marie Bankhead Owen, the only married woman on the committee identified by her given name rather than her husband's.
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1919 1919
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