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"The leaflet reviews the case for woman suffrage by federal amendment as opposed to state-by-state enactment of woman suffrage legislation. It summarizes some of the obstacles posed by a state-by-state campaign...Finally, the leaflet focuses on the…

First Lady, Patricia Nixon and President Nixon vote in the 1972 Election in San Clemente, CA, November 7, 1972

General Electric Spacemaker refrigerator advertisement featuring a 1960s homemaker. Note the starburst motifs on the front and inside of the refrigerator.

George Mason University students, faculty, and staff participate in the Indochina Peace Initiative event in the Lecture Hall, George Mason University, 2/11/1974.

American Forensic Association chooses GMU faculty, Warren Decker, for Ad Hoc Committee for Public Political Debates. This group worked with the League of Women Voters to promote debates pertaining to political issues.

Four images from Women vote!: fifteen New York State suffragists : in celebration of the 2017 centennial of women's right to vote in New York State.

Jane Fonda (at left) speaks at the Indochina Peace Initiative event in the Lecture Hall, George Mason University, Fairfax on February 11, 1974. Folk singer Holly Near is seated at right.

Memo from the national leadership of the League of Women Voters to state and local League presidents celebrating the outcome of the House of Representatives' vote to pass the 1982 extension to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Letter urging Virginia legislators to support HJR 35 - which at the time was a bill supportive of equal pay - from Sue Anderson, President of the League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area.

This map shows states with full suffrage, partial suffrage, and no suffrage ... Additionally, it notes those states "where suffrage is before voters" and states "where suffrage bill must pass a second legislature before being submitted to voters".