The statutes of some of the Southern States, moreover, still contain many of the old common law restrictions upon women's independence of action.

More and more women are asserting themselves, however, and are demanding the right to guide themselves.

The negro woman has been held up as the reason for denying the vote to the white woman, but this excuse no longer is accepted willingly.

Women are inquiring why the vote of the negro women should be any more of a menace than the vote of the negro man, and there seems to be no satisfactory answer.

If the women make up their minds and agree, they will gain their ends.
Though women in the South as elsewhere form a majority of the church membership, they have not had equal rights in church administration.
During 1918, several denominations granted full laity rights, though the bishops of the Southern Methodist Church referred the action of the General Conference back to the Annual Conferences.