Editing Henry Cabot Lodge (section)

===Civil rights===
In 1890, Lodge co-authored the [[Lodge Bill|Federal Elections Bill]], along with Senator [[George Frisbie Hoar]], that guaranteed federal protection for [[African American]] voting rights. Although the proposed legislation was supported by President [[Benjamin Harrison]], the bill was blocked by filibustering Democrats in the Senate.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Kirt H. |title=The Politics of Place and Presidential Rhetoric in the United States, 1875–1901 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxAy2SDXvBkC&q=Civil+rights+rhetoric+and+the+American+presidency&pg=PP1 |access-date=November 19, 2011 |year=2005 |chapter=1 |pages=32, 33 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-58544-440-3 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1891, he became a member of the Massachusetts Society of the [[Sons of the American Revolution]]. He was assigned national membership number 4,901.

That same year, following the [[March 14, 1891 lynchings|lynching of eleven Italian Americans]] in New Orleans, Lodge published an article blaming the victims and proposing new restrictions on Italian immigration.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Leach|first1=Eugene E.|title=Mental Epidemics: Crowd Psychology and American Culture, 1890–1940|journal=American Studies|publisher=Mid-America American Studies Association|volume=33|issue=1|pages=5–29|date=1992|jstor=40644255}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lodge|first1=Henry Cabot|title=Lynch Law and Unrestricted Immigration|journal=The North American Review|date=May 1891|volume=152|issue=414|pages=602–612|jstor=25102181}}</ref>

Lodge's support for voting rights did not extend to women. He was a leading opponent of [[Women's suffrage in the United States|women's suffrage]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Flexner |first=Eleanor |title=Century of Struggle |date=1975 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University |edition=2nd |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=306–07 |language=English}}</ref> Lodge did not change his position even after the junior senator from Massachusetts, [[John W. Weeks|John Weeks]], lost his seat in 1918 due to his opposition to equal suffrage.<ref>{{Cite book |last=DuBois |first=Ellen Carol |title=Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-5011-6516-0 |location=New York |pages=249–50 |language=English}}</ref>