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(title 17, U. S. Code).
(SUFFRAGE & RACE IN ALABAMA). The "Three Immediate Women Friends" of the Anthony Family. See Biography of Susan B. Anthony, Page 1435, by Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. [Caption title]. 3 pp. large 4to leaflet. Montgomery, [Alabama]: Brown Printing Co., [1918-20]. Some apparent water damage on p. 2 makes about ten words nearly illegible. $750.00
Beneath the caption title are pictures of Carrie Chapman Catt, the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw and "'Mrs. R. Jerome Jeffrey' (Negro)." Quotes Catt: "Suffrage Democracy Knows no Bias of Race, Color, Creed or Sex."
We presume this to be an Alabama anti-suffrage document, pointing out to Southerners the fact that the leading suffragists supported equal rights for Negroes. It reprints part of a piece done by James Calloway in the Macon Telegraph in 1918, which cites portions of Harper's biography of Anthony. One paragraph reads: "History makes Fred Douglass the pet of a lot of ill-balanced old maids. Anna Dickinson was stuck on him. They were all anti-South and Douglass pleased them."