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Why did President Wilson end up supporting the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote?
The film Iron-Jawed Angels helps illustrate what it was like to truly fight for women suffrage. Personally, the film allowed me to think about how this inequality that existed in the first place. Paul and Burns ultimately formed the organization to pressure Congress to pass a woman suffrage amendment.
President Wilson was picketed by suffragists outside of the White House. Protesters were arrested, jailed, and went on a hunger strike. When Wilson found out about the way the jailed suffragists were being force-fed,
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