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    DEEDS, NOT WORDS

    Mar 01, 2020 3 minutes
    by Nathalie Alonso

    Suffragist leaders Alice Paul and Lucy Burns wanted an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And they decided to apply political pressure to get it. They made sure President Woodrow Wilson, members of Congress, and other elected officials knew their goal. Beginning in 1913 with the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU) and continuing after the CU became the National Woman’s Party (NWP) in 1916, Paul and Burns encouraged the use of different tactics to get support for a federal amendment for women’s suffrage.

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    The CU and the NWP worked in 1913. The newsletter featured essays, poems, and political cartoons. It was published until 1920.

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