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Six Voices of
Women's Suffrage |
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Bev presents six icons of the Women's Suffrage Movement
and will tell you about their part in the success of
securing The Vote for American women through facts
and their own writings.
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ||
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902) was an American suffragist,
social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the
early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments,
presented at the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, is often credited
with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements
in the United States. She was president of the
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
She was an active abolitionist and her concerns included
women's parental and custody rights, property rights,
employment and income rights, divorce,
the economic health of the family, and birth control.
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| Susan B. Anthony | ||
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Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to
preserve their reputation and social standing, never can
bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be
willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation,
and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their
sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their
advocates, and bear the consequences." Susan B. Anthony
joined the Daughters of Temperance and in 1849
gave her first public speech at one of its meetings.
In 1852, she was elected as a delegate to the state
temperance convention, but the chairman stopped her when she
tried to speak, saying that women delegates were there only to
listen and learn. Anthony and some other women immediately walked
out and announced a meeting of their own and
created the Women's State Temperance Society.
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"Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is
incompetent to be a lawyer, minister, or doctor, but has
ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who
chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has
no more brains than a woman."
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Julia Ward Howe |
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Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910) was an American poet and author,
best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
She was an advocate for abolitionism and, after the Civil War she focused her activities on the causes of
pacifism and women's suffrage.
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She helped found the New England Women's Club and,
in 1869, she became co-leader with Lucy Stone of
the American Woman Suffrage Association.
She was the founder and president of the Association of American Women,
which advocated for women's education.
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Ida B. Wells |
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Ida B. Wells (1820-1906) was an African-American investigative journalist,
educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
She was one of the founders of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
She arguably became the most famous black woman in America,
during a life that was centered on combating prejudice and violence.
Wells was born into slavery in Mississippi.
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Wells' role in the U.S. suffrage movement was inextricably linked
to her lifelong crusade against racism, violence and discrimination
against African Americans. Pragmatic and political, like all suffragists
she believed in women's right to vote, but she also saw enfranchisement as a way for
Black women to become politically involved in their communities and
to use their votes to elect African Americans, regardless of gender.
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| Cary Chapman Catt | ||
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Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 - 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader
who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment Catt served as
president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and
the International Alliance of Women.
She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress
to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to
vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920"
and "was one of the best-known women in the United States
in the first half of the twentieth century.
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| Alice Stokes Paul | ||
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Alice Stokes Paul (1885 - 1977) was an American suffragist,
feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the
main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the
Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
Paul initiated and strategized events such as the
Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels,
which were part of the successful campaign that resulted
in the amendment's passage in 1920.
Paul spent a half century as leader of the National Woman's Party,
which fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, written by Paul
and Crystal Eastman, to secure constitutional equality for women.
She won a large degree of success with the inclusion of women
as a group protected against discrimination by the
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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