The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a civic organization that aims to help women take a larger role in public affairs as they have acquired the right to vote. The American organization was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The founding of the organization happened about six months before the Amendment XIX allowed the women to exercise the right to vote. 

LWV began as a “mighty political experiment” that was d...

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