Women’s suffrage

1776: “Remember the Ladies”

Early call for women’s rights

1848: Seneca Falls Convention

First organized women’s rights meeting.

1869: Movement splits after the 15th Amendment

Debate over who should get the vote first.

1890: NAWSA forms

Unified national strategy begins.

1913: Woman Suffrage Parade, Washington, D.C.

New tactics and national visibility.

1917: White House picketing and arrests

Militant protests draw attention.

1920: 19th Amendment ratified

Women gain the right to vote

Abigail Adams

“Remember the Ladies”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott

Seneca Falls (1848)

Susan B. Anthony

National organizer; arrested for voting

Carrie Chapman Catt

NAWSA, “Winning Plan” (state-by-state, lobbying)

Alice Paul & Lucy Burns

National Woman’s Party, picketing, hunger strikes

Ida B. Wells & Mary Church Terrell

Linked suffrage to racial justice

President Woodrow Wilson

Pressured by protests during WWI

Anti-Suffragists

Argued politics would harm home and family