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Related Link: Woman Suffrage Centennial
credit: William E. Borah Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Concerns about racial equality, particularly in the American South, extended the woman suffrage debate. The state of Idaho had granted suffrage to women in 1896, and Senator William Borah boasted on the campaign trail that he had long been a proponent of suffrage for women, but he vehemently disagreed with the strategy of securing woman suffrage by amending the Constitution.
