19th Amendment Famous Figures

Carrie Chapman Catt - Position

·         Leader of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

·         Founder of the League of Women Voters

·         Women’s rights activist and suffragist

Carrie Chapman - Goals

·         Wanted women to have the right to vote in the U.S.

·         Hoped for equal rights for men and women

·         Believed in using peaceful and organized methods to make change

Carrie Chapman - Strategies

·         Worked campaigns through state-by-state (Iowa, New York, California, Colorado, and Washington)

·         These campaigns were meant to fight for women’s rights to vote

·         Gave powerful speeches and led peaceful protests

·         Used organization and education to win support for women’s suffrage

Carrie Chapman - Accomplishments

·         Helped win the 19^th Amendment (1920) giving women the right to vote

·         Founded the League of Women Voters to keep women involved in politics

·         Remembered as one of the most important leaders in the women’s rights movement

Anne Dallas Dudley - Position

·         National Director and Founder of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League

·         President of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association

·         Vice President of the National American Women Suffrage Association

Anne Dallas Dudley - Goals

·         Grant women the right to vote

·         Creating social equality for women and men

Anne Dallas Dudley - Strategies

·         First woman to do open air speeches in Nashville

·         Led protests in the thousand

·         Went to a Congressional meeting to convince the Congress to get a federal suffrage bills passed

·         Led women suffrage parades in Centennial park with 2,000 women behind her

Anne Dallas Dudley - Accomplishments

·         Founder of Tennessee States Suffrage League

·         Spearheading the movement during the final years of the suffrage movement

·         Vice President of the National American Women Suffrage association

Alice Paul - Position

·         American Quaker suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women’s rights activist

·         The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Alice Paul - Goals

·         Win the rights to vote for women

·         Achieve full equality between men and women in the workplace

·         Pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Alice Paul - Strategies

·         Believed in using nonviolent marches using pickets and hunger strikes

·         Focused on a federal amendment to give all women the right to vote

·         Directly pressured Congress and the President to take action (holding the party in power accountable)

Alice Paul - Accomplishments

·         Helped win women the right to vote

·         Founded the National Women’s Party (NWP)

·         Wrote the equal rights Amendment (ERA)

·         Changed how activists protested, using bold, peaceful methods like marches, picketing, and hunger strikes to demand justice

Harry Burn - Position

·         Tennessee State Senator

·         Representative of the Republican Party

Harry Burn - Goals

·         He represented a conservative district which led people to think he was anti-suffrage

·         Believed in suffrage (women’s rights to vote)

·         His mom sent him a letter to persuade him to vote for suffrage

·         Burns follows his mom’s ideas

Harry Burn - Strategies

·         His mom’s letter was in his pocket

·         Burns acknowledged how important it is for women to vote (persuade his thinking)

·         He initially wore a red rose lapel (a symbol of anti-suffrage)

·         He worked well under immense pressure

Harry Burn - Accomplishments

·         Burn’s vote help ratified in determining if 27 million women could vote

·         Youngest member of the Tennessee General Assembly

·         Won reelection after a hard-fought campaign in 1920

·         The 19^th Amendment prohibits the denial to the right to vote based on sex, thus allowing women to vote