Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, the organization coupled its drive for full woman suffrage with support of World War I and persuaded President Woodrow Wilson to throw his support behind what was to become the Nineteenth Amendment.
The WFL was considered a radical organisation, since in addition to women's suffrage it supported equal rights for women in the areas of divorce and inheritance.
One congressman who had been in the hospital for six months had himself carted to the floor so he could support suffrage.
While Emmeline Pankhurst called a ceasefire in the suffrage movement to support the war effort, the women's very visible efficacy in the workplace could only stand them in better stead to be heard once the fighting stopped, even if the patriarchy kept adding -ettes to any new job title they took on.
With the advent of the First World War, Emmeline and Christabel called an immediate halt to militant suffrage activism in support of the British government's stand against the "German Peril".
The Woman's Journal's audience supported suffrage as a means of obtaining for women better education, greater access to the professions, and property rights for married women (see Married Women's Property Acts).
With Greeley's blessing, his new literary editor — more partner than employee — undertook the task of exposing the criminal abuses rife in asylums and prisons, supported suffrage for blacks as well as women and wrote biting editorials in hopes of transforming New York into a model society.
We should care, and we should feel outraged, for the same reason so many men supported suffrage for women and so many white Americans joined the civil rights struggle - because we should find it offensive when any minority group in society is deprived of equal rights.
But the "Radical" reforms supported by these organisations (for example, universal suffrage) found even less support in Parliament.
"The United States supports universal suffrage in Hong Kong in accordance with the Basic Law and we support the aspirations of the Hong Kong people," said Earnest, who also urged restraint on both sides.
