The beginning of the fight for women's suffrage in the United States, which predates Jeannette Rankin's entry into Congress by nearly 70 years<span>, grew out of a larger women's rights movement.</span>
I don't know who the crime bosses were, but the eighteenth amendment was the prohibition amendment which banned alcohol in the United States. This began a new era crime centered around alcohol smuggling. It was comparable to today's illegal dug industry.
