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To Alice Paul

Through Whose Brilliant and Devoted Leadership the Women of
America Have Been Able to Consummate with Gladness and Gallant
Courage Their Long Struggle for Political Liberty, This Book is
Affectionately Dedicated

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Preface

This book deals with the intensive campaign of the militant
suffragists of America [1913-1919] to win a solitary thing-the
passage by Congress of the national suffrage amendment
enfranchising women. It is the story of the first organized
militant ,political action in America to this end. The militants
differed from the pure propagandists in the woman suffrage
movement chiefly in that they had a clear comprehension of the
forces which prevail in politics. They appreciated the necessity
of the propaganda stage and the beautiful heroism of those who