te equality for blacks, economic as well as social. He believed in the immediate integration of blacks into mainstream American life, regardless of the consequences. In the mist of the progress for the black race, women suffrage arose to try to win the ballot just recently won by blacks. Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, women suffragists formed the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890. Suffragists under Catt threatened to discharge their traditional duties as homemakers and mothers in the increasingly public world of the city. Ironically with all the women's suffrage bickering, women did not receive the ballot until 1920 by the 19th Amendment. The civil rights movement of the late 1800's and early 1900's succeeded in "breaking the ice" for blacks and also in leading the way to women's triumph in 1920. However, this civil rights movement did not accomplish its goals to the fullest due to the lack of government enforcement. After the Reconstruction congress passed unprecedented legislation involving black civil rights,
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