Why Did Kate Gordon and Carrie Chapman Catt Stress That ‘white Supremacy Will Be Strengthened, Not Weakened, by Women’s Suffrage.’?

• In 1913 Kate Gordon organised the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists planned to lobby state legislatures for laws that would enfranchise white women only.

‘White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage,’ was Catt’s argument when trying to win over Mississippi and South Carolina.