Montgomery native and anti-suffragist Nina Pinckard is shown here at left brandishing a Confederate flag. Next to her are a seated Confederate veteran and Josephine A. Pearson, a Tennessee leader of the anti-suffragist movement that arose during the effort to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote in the United States. In addition to opposing woman suffrage, these "anti-ratification leagues" promoted white supremacy and states' rights.
Nina Pinckard and Josephine A. Pearson
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The Woman Patriot
Dedicated to the Defense of Womanhood, Motherhood, The Family and the State AGAINST Suffragism, Feminism and Socialism
Vol. 3, No. 29
WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 1, 1919
5 Cents a Copy
Published Weekly by The Woman Patriot Publishing Co., 726 14th Street N.W., Washington, D. C.
“In all wars he is a conqueror who can believe a quarter of an hour longer than his adversary that he is not beaten. We shall continue the war to the last quarter of an hour, for the last quarter of an hour will be ours.”
—Premier Georges Clemenceau.
Contributing Editors
Henry Watterson
Anna Katherine Green
Octave Thanet
Elizabeth Ogden Wood
Margaret C. Robinson
Henry Holt
Rossiter Johnson
James Callaway
Editor Minnie Bronson
Associate Editor Charlotte E. Rowe
The Anthony Amendment Means Race and Sex War
Entered as second-class matter April 26, 1918, at the post office at Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Photo courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Women's Suffrage in Tennessee Collection
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