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NAWSA changed into the

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League of Women Voters (LWV)

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League of Women Voters (LWV)

direction of movement divided?

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Veteran campaigner Jane Addams wanted women to campaign on women’s issues. Carrie Chapman Catt wanted women to integrate into national political life and develop into equal citizens and participants

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LWV spent a lot of time and energy persuading women to vote because

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Women didn’t take advantage of vote- turnout in 1920 election low

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few former suffragists joined LWV

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only 5-10% of members of NAWSA joined new organisation

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continuation of pre-war tendency to campaign for

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specific social and civic issues
women active in church organisations, in groups promoting educational improvement and better working conditions and continuing campaigns for temperance and moral uplift

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work of Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching urged

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federal action against increasing violence in South against AA

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Conservative organisations popular. most famously the

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Daughters of American Revolution. (patriotic. open to women who can show their ancestors played a role in achieving US independence)

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daughters of the American Revolution

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popular conservative association
patriotic society
open to women who can show ancestors played a role in achieving US independence
formed 1890
180,000 members
aimed to commemorate and celebrate key elements of US society