March 31, 1915: Today was a busy one for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage as it became a national organization, adopted a constitution and launched a suffrage campaign that puts it in direct competition with another effort by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Front row, from left: Elizabeth Colt, Elizabeth Kent, Elizabeth Selden Rogers, Olive Halladay Hasbrouck, with Hazel MacKaye holding the magazine.
Second row: Marie Theodosia Armes, Lucy Burns, and Jessie Davisson.
The result of this all-day meeting of the Congressional Union’s Advisory Council makes it clear that there are two very different…
