As women earned their right to vote, state by state, child labor laws were passed. The stranglehold that political bosses had on American cities began to loosen. The first welfare laws were brought into being. So were the first protests against genocide, in this case led by Alice Stone Blackwell, who thought that her feminist work was inseparable from her work supporting refugees from the Armenian genocide. “Men are saying perhaps, ‘Thank God, this everlasting woman’s right is over!’ ” Crystal Eastman, a feminist and suffragette, would say after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, “but
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