Nina Pinckard

Montgomery native Nina Pinckard was an ardent foe of women's right to vote and was a founder of the Women's Anti-Ratification League of Alabama, which was created to oppose passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She is featured here on the cover of The Woman Patriot: A National Newspaper for Home and National Defense Against Woman Suffrage, Feminism and Socialism, which was founded as part of the effort to oppose passage of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote.

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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.

Mrs. JAMES STEPTOE PINCKARD, Montgomery, Ala.,
President, Southern Anti-Ratification League

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.

Cover of the November 1, 1919, issue of The Woman Patriot, featuring a portrait of Nina Winter Pinckard and identifying her as president of the Southern Anti-Ratification League.
Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Cover of the November 1, 1919, issue of The Woman Patriot, featuring a portrait of Nina Winter Pinckard and identifying her as president of the Southern Anti-Ratification League.