Political Cartoon: Uncle Sam embracing a Nurse Download Published November 10, 1917 Image Courtesy of the Library of Congress Transcript Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"
Biography Elizabeth Cady Stanton Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements. READ MORE
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