User:Bmfenton10/National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

Anti-suffrage views were of the upmost importance in the early twentieth century. Founded in the United States, The National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage (NAOWS) was a group of women opposed to the suffrage movement in 1911. Speaking across the northeaster cities, the NAOWS consisted of influential chapters in Virginia and Texas. Before there was a NAOWS, suffrage activists had influenced each other without any organization. While unorganized, artists would create political images imitating the suffrage movement. When the group began to transform, Josephine Dodge took the lead, by first creating day care centers where mother could have their children taken care of while they were working. As both women and men both bound together for voting rights, women and men also joined, combining ideas with one another towards the suffrage movement. Dodge believed that it was important to decrease the amount of work women dealt with and that this could be done with women suffrage. Not only was NAOWS active on state level, but the group created a newsletter, Woman's Protest, that included anti-suffrage opinion. The newsletter continued on as the the Nineteenth Amendment was passed opposing the work feminists had done.