Handwritten letters, speeches, photographs and scrapbooks, created by American suffragists who persisted for more than 70 years to win voting rights for women, are being featured in a new exhibition at the Library of Congress. “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote,” tells the story of the largest reform movement in American history with documents and artifacts from the women who changed political history 100 years ago. Drawing from the personal collections of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Mary Church Terrell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Harriet Stanton Blatch and others, along with the records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and National Woman’s Party – all donated to the national library years ago – the exhibition explores women’s long
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