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WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT. WOMEN’S RIGHTS TO VOTE TIMELINE. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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  1. WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

  2. WOMEN’S RIGHTS TO VOTE TIMELINE

  3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902)She helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 which focused on women’s rights and co wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. She is often credited with starting the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. 1

  4. Lucretia Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880)An American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and co wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. 2

  5. Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)Played an important role in the 19th century women's rights movement by introducing women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches every year on women's rights for 45 years. 3

  6. Sojourner Truth (1797? – November 26, 1883)Born into slavery and escaped in 1826. Worked as an abolitionist. Spoke out for women’s rights. Her most famous speech “Ain’t I A Women” was given in 1851 at a women’s rights convention in Ohio. 4

  7. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) Anna Howard Shaw was an American suffragist who became the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church. She earned a medical degree in 1886 and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for nearly a decade. During World War I, she worked diligently on home-front war activities. She died just before women gained the right to vote. 5

  8. Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947)Carrie Chapman Catt worked as a teacher to pay her own way through Iowa State College. She worked in the school system and for newspapers before joining suffrage movement in 1887. She took over the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900 and came up with the “Winning Plan” that helped pass the 19th Amendment in 1920. 6

  9. Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) In 1910, Paul became involved in the women’s struggle for the right to vote. At first, Paul was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and served as the chair of its congressional committee. She later formed the National Woman's Party (NWP). It’s focus was an amendment to the US Constitution allowing women to vote. NWPs members picketed the White House in 1917 to get its point across. As a part of this action, Paul was jailed in October and November of that year. 7

  10. Lucy Burns (April 20, 1879 – September 15, 1966) An American suffragist and women's rights advocate.She was a passionate activist abroad in the United Kingdom and the United States. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party. 8

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  14. The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920 by proclamation of Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. The amendment was the culmination of more than 70 years of struggle by woman suffragists. Its two sections read simply: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" and "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." 12

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