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Some women did not want to participate in the women's suffrage movement because they felt they were too emotional to make educated decisions and that if they became involved in politics, they would stop marrying, having children, and the human race might eventually become extinct.
The reason that the suffrage movement stalled because the National American Women's Suffrage Association was forced to dissolve. This forced less knowledge and understanding about equal rights to be shared with others.
Alice Paul wanted to utilize protests in order to confront President Wilson about suffrage, which alarmed some within the movement. She was a prominent advocate for the Nineteenth Amendment.
racial prejudice and fear of labor competition from slaves.
Because most people were still racist and prejudice in the 1920's. Most of America was probably still prejudice up until the civil rights movement in the 60's.