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Aug 9, 2020 · As the suffragist movement gained momentum, women mobilized committees, circulated petitions, and created associations to oppose women’s suffrage in New York and Massachusetts. Thousands of ...
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- Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906
- Alice Paul, 1885-1977
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
- Lucy Stone, 1818-1893
- Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931
- Frances E.W. Harper
- Mary Church Terrell
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Perhaps the most well-known women’s rights activist in history, Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, to a Quaker family in Massachusetts. Anthony was raised to be independent and outspoken: Her parents, like many Quakers, believed that men and women should study, live and work as equals and should commit themselves equally to the eradica...
Alice Paul was the leader of the most militant wing of the woman suffrage movement. Born in 1885 to a wealthy Quaker family in New Jersey, Paul was well-educated—she earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Swarthmore College and a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania—and was determined to win the vote by any means necessary. ...
Elizabeth Cady Stantonwas one of the foremost women’s-rights activists and philosophers of the 19th century. Born on November 12, 1815, to a prominent family in upstate New York, she was surrounded by reform movements of all kinds. Soon after her marriage to abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840, the pair traveled to the World Anti-Slavery Co...
Lucy Stone, born in Massachusetts in 1818, was a pioneering abolitionistand women’s-rights activist, but she is perhaps best known for refusing to change her last name when she married the abolitionist Henry Blackwell in 1855. (This tradition, the couple declared, “refuse[d] to recognize the wife as an independent, rational being” and “confer[red] ...
Ida B. Wells, born in Mississippi in 1862, is perhaps best known for her work as a crusading journalist and anti-lynching activist. While working as a schoolteacher in Memphis, Wells wrote for the city’s Black newspaper, The Free Speech. Her writings exposed and condemned the inequalities and injustices that were so common in the Jim CrowSouth: dis...
Born to free Black parents in Maryland, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was orphaned while she was still very young. She was raised by her aunt and uncle, William Watkins, an abolitionist who set up his own school, the Watkins Academy for Negro Youth. Harper attended the academy, began writing poetry as a teenager and later became a teacher at schools...
Terrell grew up in an affluent family in Tennessee; her formerly enslaved parents both owned successful businesses, and her father, Robert Reed Church, was one of the South’s first Black millionaires. After graduating from Oberlin College, she began working as a teacher in Washington D.C., and became involved in the women’s rights movement. Terrell...
Life Story: Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931). New-York Historical Society Museum & Library. Mary Church Terrell. National Park Service. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. National Women’s History Museum. Lucy Stone. Iowa State University: Archives of Women’s Political Communication. For Stanton, All Women Were Not Created Equal. NPR. Who Was Alice Paul?...
Jul 18, 2023 · Passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and made into law in August 1920, the amendment gave women political power over 130 years after the nation’s founding. It was the culmination of a century of ...
Alice Paul. A vocal leader of the twentieth century women’s suffrage movement, Alice Paul advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19 th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Paul next authored the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, which has yet to be adopted. Born on January 11, 1885 in Mount Laurel, New ...
If suffrage is to be extended gradually, Stanton insisted, “it would be wiser and safer to enfranchise the higher orders of womanhood than the lower orders of black and white, washed and unwashed, lettered and unlettered manhood.”[7] With the end of the abolitionist and women’s rights coalition after the Civil War, an independent women’s suffrage movement emerged in 1869 that was made ...
Oct 29, 2009 · The women’s suffrage movement was a decades‑long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified ...
Photo AR.E.004 (028), Austin History Center, Austin (TX) Public Library. Published with permission. By Liette Gidlow. On a sweltering August afternoon in 1920, the struggle of generations to enfranchise women on the same terms as men seemed to come to a triumphant end.
