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Suffrage at Last Chapter 8 Section 2
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Susan B. Anthony • Quaker, abolitionists, demanded the same rights for women as African Americans under the 14th and 15th Amendment – failed • Head of National Woman Suffrage Association • 1872 arrested for leading group of women to polls and demanding to vote. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://winningthevote.org/images/SBAnthony1.jpg&imgrefur l=http://winningthevote.org/SBAnthony1-big.html&h=601&w=450&sz=34&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=zTQMK36asok ODM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSusan%2BB.%2BAnth ony%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2005-11,GGLD:en%26sa%3DN
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Civil Disobedience – nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change the law. • Convicted at trial-refused to pay $100 fine. • National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) named Anthony the President from 1892-1900.
Suffrage at the Turn of the Century • Married women could now buy, sell, and will property. • Yet, lawyer, Myra Bradwell was refused a license to practice law in Chicago 1869. • She took the case to the Supreme Court. • Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) – the court upheld the denial, reaffirming the “wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman”. • Myra Bradwell finally got her license in 1890. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bradwell.cps.k12.il.us/Bradwell%2520School/Images/myra2-tan-background.jpg&imgrefurl =http://www.bradwell.cps.k12.il.us/Bradwell%2520School/history.htm&h=189&w=143&sz=8&hl=en&tart=4&tbnid=3TjM5wqvBeMdkM:&tbnh=103 &tbnw=78&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMyra%2BBradwel%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2005-11,GGLD:en%26sa%3DN
Most Americans believed proper the sphere for woman was home. • Women more active lobbying and picketing. • Two basic arguments against woman voting… • 1.Women are powerful enough without voting. • 2. It would blur the distinction between sexes and make women more masculine. • Many assumed women would quickly establish prohibition.
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Suffragist Strategies • Press for Constitutional Amendment • · Required 2/3 of House to pass • · Then ratified by ¾ of state legislatures • Get individual states to permit voting – successful on frontier
1868 the amendment stalled. • 1878 new amendment “Anthony Amendment” – stalled • 1887 – defeated in Senate • Senators were inattentive to the reading. • 16 pro, 34 con, 26 absent • Reintroduced yearly until 1896 then it was not heard of again until 1913.
The Movement Strengthens in the 1910s • Carrie Chapman Catt, head NAWSA, insisted on close, precinct-by-precinct political work. • Alice Paul and Lucy Burns took over committee for Congressional Passage of Amendment in 1913.
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Held a parade of 5,000 women in Washington D.C. day before Wilson’s inauguration. • Paul transformed her committee into new organization. • The Congressional Union (CU)
A Split in the Movement • Paul’s CU called for aggressive, militant campaign for the constitutional amendment. • She planned to bypass suffrage organizations in states and set up new ones. • 1914 NAWSA expelled her.
CU staged militant protests: demonstrated, burned copies of Wilson’s speeches and life sized dummy of Wilson. • CU women sent to prison for demonstrations. • They then went on hunger strikes to protest prison conditions. • NAWSA condemned the CU, not their treatment. Lucy Burns http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archives/17111%20 (Suffragist%20Lucy%20Burns%20in%20Jail).jpg
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1917 NAWSA had 2 million members equaling the largest volunteer organization. • NY state finally voted for women’s suffrage. http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/kansas.jpg
Impact of WWI • The U.S. entered WWI in 1917. • Women volunteered for ambulance corps, medical work, and jobs left by men. • Congress passed the 18th Amendment… prohibition. • This took liquor interests out of the fight.
The Final Victory for Suffrage • 1918 Congress formally proposed the suffrage amendment. • They were embarrassed and disturbed by the treatment of Paul’s CU women in jail. • The ratification battle began. • On August 24th, 1920, TN became the necessary 36th state to ratify the suffrage amendment. • The 19th Amendment was the last major reform of Progressive Era.