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Letter from Gertrude Weil to Carrie Chapman Catt, July 9, 1920, page 1

Gertrude Weil expresses her dismay at the attempts of some opponents of women's suffrage to play the race card, playing on the fears of some white citizens that granting women the right to vote would increase the power of the region's black population, July 9, 1920.
Courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Letter from Gertrude Weil to Carrie Chapman Catt, July 9, 1920, page 1." (Viewed on December 26, 2024) <https://jwa.org/media/letter-from-weil-to-carrie-chapman-catt-0>.