Hand Book of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
[Suffrage]. Shuler, Nettie Rogers, ed. The Hand Book of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Convention Held at Washington D.C. December 12-15 (inclusive) 1917. New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1917.
8vo.; orange wrappers printed in black; spine wrinkled; extremities nicked; edges faded; small stain on lower panel.
First edition of this hand book for the 49th annual National American Woman Suffrage Association Conference, held in Washington D.C. According to the hand book, the goal of the NAWSA was “to secure protection, in their right to vote, to the women citizens of the United States, by appropriate National and State legislation.” Printed in the hand book are reports from affiliated members in every state, of the President, Vice-President and other high-ranking officers of the Association, and from every committee, ranging from Press and Publicity, Thrift, Membership, Literature, and Finance. Also included are membership lists; historical data about the Association; future plans; and the Convention program, which listed the invocation, minutes, announcements, speakers, musical entertainment, resolutions and new business.
The NAWSA is an amalgamation of two rival Suffrage groups; the National Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1869 by Stanton and Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1869 by Stone and Howe. In 1917, Catt was President of NAWSA, a post she had agreed to return to in 1915. (Catt had been the President of the earlier NWSA from 1900-1904, where Anthony had chosen Catt as her successor.) It was during Catt’s leadership of NAWSA that the amendment was passed to enfranchise women.
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