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Telegram from jailed suffragists
National Woman's PartyNovember 28, 1917
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia, PA, United States
“America is bound to sympathize and grant us victory,” predicted the National Woman’s Party in this November 1917 telegram. As the public decried the gross mistreatment of suffrage prisoners, opinions started to change. Within a year, President Wilson announced his support for the suffrage amendment—urging Congress to support it, too.
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- Title: Telegram from jailed suffragists
- Creator: National Woman's Party
- Date Created: November 28, 1917
- Original Source: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
- Rights: Alice Paul Papers. Series II. Suffrage. National Woman's Party: correspondence, 1916-1918. MC 399, folder 252. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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