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1. origins.osu.edu › article › 19th-amendment-suffrageThe International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

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   Socialism, and the growing numbers of working women it inspired, breathed new life into the U.S. suffrage movement. In 1909, women workers in New York demanded the right to vote, launching what became International Women’s Day. Over the next six years, working women exploded in labor militancy, viewing the vote as a tool against unjust ...

2. home.nps.gov › articles › the-internationalistThe International History of the US Suffrage Movement - NPS

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   Mar 9, 2022 · These groups were preceded by Swiss leader Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin’s 1868 founding of one of the first international women’s organizations, the International Association of Women or Association internationale des femmes, whose goal was to organize women of all classes so they could enjoy the same rights as men within their own countries. Although this group included women from the United ...

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4. www.pewresearch.org › short-reads › 2020/10/05Key facts about women’s suffrage around the world | Pew ...

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   Oct 5, 2020 · More than half of the countries and territories we analyzed (129 out of 198) granted women the right to vote between 1893 and 1960. This includes all but six European nations. Some of the European nations that allowed universal suffrage after 1960 include Switzerland (1971), Portugal (1976) and Liechtenstein (1984).

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5. oxfordre.com › americanhistory › displayWoman Suffrage Movement in the United States | Oxford ...

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   In the early 20th century, woman suffrage became a mass movement that effectively utilized modern publicity and outreach methods. Woman suffrage was never a “gift.”. Skillful organization, mobilization, and activism were required to build a powerful social movement and achieve the long-sought goal.

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6. www.crusadeforthevote.org › working-women-movementWorking Women in the Movement - History of U.S. Woman's Suffrage

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   Working women started seeing the vote as a way to gain more political power to further these causes. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was among the first suffragists to recruit working women to support suffrage. She started collaborating with the Women’s Trade Union League, founded in 1905, to help ...

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7. womansplaceuk.org › 2020/07/12 › standing-shouldersStanding on the shoulders of giantesses: working-class women ...

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   Jul 12, 2020 · But working-class women were the life blood of the movement; and founded the first suffrage organisation in Manchester 36 years before the Pankhurst’s WSPU. The year before that , in 1866, a petition demanding enfranchisement had been presented to Parliament – and one of the key signatories was a Black woman, the inspirational suffrage and abolition activist Sarah Parker Redmond.

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   What suffrage groups did working-class women organize?

   • Working-class women organized their own suffrage group, the Wage Earners Suffrage League, while Chinese, Italian, African American, and Latina suffragists also worked within their communities. The NAWSA provided foreign-language literature generated locally by the members of the College Equal Suffrage League.

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   How did women suffrage become a mass movement?

   • Later, educational advances and the growth of the women’s-club movement mobilized large numbers of middle-class women, while wage work and trade-union participation galvanized working-class women. In the early 20th century, woman suffrage became a mass movement that effectively utilized modern publicity and outreach methods.

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   Why was women suffrage important in the 20th century?

   • In the early 20th century, woman suffrage became a mass movement that effectively utilized modern publicity and outreach methods. Woman suffrage was never a “gift.” Skillful organization, mobilization, and activism were required to build a powerful social movement and achieve the long-sought goal.

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   Why did working women support suffrage?

   • Women who worked to support themselves and their families had less time and funds to devote to social movements. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, working women began supporting suffrage in greater numbers. They joined labor unions, held strikes for higher pay, and protested for better working conditions.

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   When did women support suffrage?

   • Since the beginning of the women’s rights movement, women who devoted their lives to reform often were middle and upper class women. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, working women began supporting suffrage in greater numbers.

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   Why did working women vote?

   • Working women started seeing the vote as a way to gain more political power to further these causes. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was among the first suffragists to recruit working women to support suffrage.

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9. hist259.web.unc.edu › nationalunionofwomensNational Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) (1807-1928)

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   The NUWSS became the leading moderate suffragist organization until 1919. Involving hundreds-thousands of women in the campaign to earn women the right to vote, the group was headed by Millicent Garret Fawcett, the president of the NUWSS. The NUWSS was primarily a middle- and upper-class women’s movement, but it did have some representation ...