League of Women Voters of Kansas.

The National League of Women Voters was formed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association in response to the anticipated victory of the Woman Suffrage movement, achieved in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.

In 1919, NAWSA President Carrie Chapman Catt proposed the formation of an organization of women voters as a "mighty political experiment" aimed to help newly-enfranchised women exercise their responsibilities as voters and "finish the fight". In February 1920, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) held its Victory Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Knowing that the battle was won and that the suffrage amendment would be ratified later that year, the Association reconstituted itself as the League of Women Voters. Having won the vote, the women wanted to ensure that they were well-informed and would use it wisely.

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