[Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"]

[Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"]

After the war, the women had proved themselves capable and this enabled the public to except women's suffrage.

A political cartoon about the public's acceptance of women's suffrage after women's performance during World War I. Digitization of a drawing. 1917. World War I was still happening and would not end until the next year, but there had already been enough time for women to prove themselves with their war work. The political cartoon directly ties women's war work and women's suffrage.

Morris

The Brooklyn Magazine

Library of Congress

November 10, 1917

Digitization of a drawing