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Photo of President Woodrow Wilson, 1919.
JESSIE HAVER BUTLER: It was the day after they burned Woodrow Wilson in effigy that he decided to go up to the Capitol and ask for woman's suffrage.
LAURA SEILER: There is no doubt about it, that that is what precipitated the president's decision to bring the matter before Congress. I'm very sure that if Alice Paul had not carried on those demonstrations it would have gone on years more before it ever got to the Congress.
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Photo Courtesy of:
Sherna Berger Gluck