Wald
was a firm believer in woman’s suffrage and was even asked by the
leaders of the movement to run for political office. Although she
declined, Wald supported the New York State suffrage campaigns.
When the 1915 amendment failed to pass, one suffrage leader
blamed immigrant voters. Wald pointed out that many immigrants,
and especially Jews—female and male—were anxious to exercise
the political rights that they had been denied elsewhere. Wald,
as always, saw the women of the Henry Street neighborhood as her
primary constituents, and continued to champion both the cause
of suffrage and immigrant rights with equal zeal. She
considered 1917’s successful campaign a great victory.
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