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credit: William E. Borah Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
In this correspondence between suffragist Bertha Stull Green and Idaho Senator William Borah, Green asks for an update on the status of the “Woman Suffrage bill”—the constitutional amendment to extend suffrage to women. Senator Borah boasted on the campaign trail that he had long been a proponent of suffrage for women, but he vehemently disagreed with amending the Constitution to secure woman suffrage. His response to Green (included in the PDF) reflects how concerns about racial equality, particularly in the American South, extended the woman suffrage debate.
