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Letter from Gertrude Weil, August 4, 1920, page 2

Letter from Gertrude Weil, August 4, 1920, page 2

Letter from Gertrude Weil, writing on behalf of the Equal Suffrage Association of North Carolina, August 4, 1920, page 2.

Courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History.

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4 August 1920
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[continued from the previous page] he meets that State's requirements. The same guarantee by the Federal Government to WOMEN would be no usurpation of STATES' rights.
4. The menace of the negro woman's vote is a figment of the Anti imagination. Negro women will be allowed to vote on the same terms as Negro men. Would you consider disfranchising the whole male sex because a few negro men vote?<
5. The women of North Carolina DO want the vote. The following have said so, representing the strongest organizations of women, morally and numerically:

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Letter from Gertrude Weil, August 4, 1920, page 2." (Viewed on July 3, 2020) <https://jwa.org/media/letter-from-gertrude-weil-1>.

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