The States' Rights Faction Kate Gordon's Louisiana
If I didn't know that nothing was impossible, I'd certainly say that Alabama was. It's almost impossible for a person from the North to do anything down here, especially a thing so unpopular as the federal amendment.
"States' rights" is no empty phrase down here, and everything "federal" is shunned. . . . I have talked to all kinds of women -- society, professional, club, suffrage, working -- and have struck not one ray of encouragement or cooperation.
It's a shame we have to work singly in these Southern States. They're a real battlefield.
Beulah Amidon to Alice Paul, 1917
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Publication information:
Book title: Southern Strategies:Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question.
Contributors: Elna C. Green - Author.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press.
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC.
Publication year: 1997.
Page number: 127.
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