Women's Suffrage

How long was the battle for women’s suffrage?

A Century long, and even longer for black women

Why didn’t anyone greet woodrow wilson when he arrived at Union Station?

Everyone was watching the suffragists pageant.

first women elected to congress

Jeanette rankin from montana

Why did WW 1 cause a problem for the suffragists

Suffragists would have to fully commit to the war effort and spend less time on suffrage

Leader of women’s suffrage movement in Britain

Emmeline Pankhurst

What was Emmeline Pankhurst’s influence on female activists in the U.S.?

Her use of confrontational tactics inspired female activists (like Alice Paul) to adopt a more radical approach.

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The country (U.S.) was part of a much larger, international movement for women’s rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Who was the leader of the more radical wing of the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. in the early twentieth century?

Alice Paul

What tactics did Alice Paul use?

She used tactics like marches, theatrical parades, protesting in front of the White House, and provocative slogans and signs to appeal to the conscience of the nation in the hopes of winning women the right to vote.

Also the hunger strike.

National Women’s Party

In 1916, Alice Paul helped found the National Woman’s Party, which would become the vanguard organization within the more radical wing of the suffrage and later feminist movements in the United States during the remainder of the early twentieth century

Who was the head of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) leading up tot he adoption of the 19th amendment?

Carrie Chapman Catt

What tactics did Carrie Chapman Catt use?

Unlike Alice Paul, Catt favored a more moderate political approach that sought to build support among as many legislators as possible for the cause of women’s suffrage. In other words, she strongly preferred traditional political lobbying to more confrontational tactics.

League of Woman Voters

After the suffrage amendment was passed, Catt would go on to found the League of Women Voters, which remains a major organization committed to encouraging voter participation and to protecting voter rights today.

National American Woman’s Suffrage Association

• Largest organization dedicated to the fight for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century.

• It was founded in 1890 when the nation’s two leading

  suffrage organizations resolved to join forces. Susan B. Anthony helped engineer this merger.

• Led many state and local campaigns for suffrage in the early twentieth century and was integral to winning the 19th Amendment to the constitution.

• The organization preferred more traditional forms of lobbying to the
  comparatively confrontational and radical politics that Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party pursued.

National Woman’s Party

• Was founded in 1916 by Alice Paul and her allies.

• Embraced militant tactics to try to force the
  nation to adopt women’s suffrage.

• After suffrage was won, the National Woman’s Party would be the first major feminist organization in the United States to push for the Equal Rights Amendment, a constitutional amendment that
  would have barred discrimination based on sex.

• The fight for the Equal Rights Amendment would remain a major cause for feminists through the late twentieth century and is still a priority for many advocates of women’s rights in the United States today.