"Hurrah for Woman Suffrage": Young Suffragists and the Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment

Young people were central to the debate over women's suffrage. Anti-suffragists used children as evidence of the danger of granting the vote to women. Suffragists countered these arguments by insisting on the necessity of the vote in protecting their children. Suffrage propaganda used children as symbols of innocence, domesticity, and optimism for the future. But young people were not only symbolic representations of the suffrage debate—they were integral participants in the fight for the vote, and in the process they discovered their voice and their power.