(Radio Iowa) – The name of a prominent suffragette will remain on a building on the Iowa State University campus. Carrie Chapman Catt, who grew up in Charles City, was president of the National American Women Suffrage Association in 1920 when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. In 1995, a building on Iowa State’s campus was renamed in her honor.

A recent petition drive and protesters pointed to a statement Catt made in the south, that white supremacy would “be strengthened, not weakened” by giving women the right to vote — and I-S-U’s president convened a review committee. The group met 28 times. Eleven of of its members have voted to keep Catt’s name on the building, well over the two-thirds majority required.

Iowa State University president Wendy Wintersteen says the committee methodically examined a complex and historical figure. Catt was the only woman in the 1880 graduating c