The American Men Who Supported Female Suffragettes

"American men as individuals had publicly supported the rights of women as far back as 1775 [including Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Douglass]…

[Years later] 150 men of means or influence or both had joined together under their own charter to become what their banner proclaimed them, the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage. Since the end of 1909, they had been speaking, writing, editing or publishing, planning, and lobbying New York’s governor and legislators on behalf of the suffrage cause. ​They did so until the vote was won."

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