The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. more
League members hold citizenship classes for newly enfranchised women, 1920s.
In 1920, just six months before the U.S. Constitution was amended to give women the right to vote, the National Woman Suffrage Association's president, Carrie Chapman Catt, proposed the creation of the League of Women Voters. more