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Aug 9, 2020 · Thousands of women would eventually join their fight. “They said, ‘We’ve got to do something,'" Goodier said, “or else we’re going to be stuck with the vote.'”. Their efforts would ...
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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?...
Aug 18, 2020 · While a crucial milestone for women’s rights and progress in the United States, the 19th Amendment’s promise of suffrage a century ago still has not been fully realized.
- Women’s Rights Movement Begins. The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and '30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had.
- Seneca Falls Convention. In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights.
- Civil War and Civil Rights. During the 1850s, the women’s rights movement gathered steam, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. Almost immediately after the war ended, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution raised familiar questions of suffrage and citizenship.
- The Progressive Campaign for Suffrage 14 14 Images. This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Aug 18, 2020 · One hundred years ago today, women’s voices were finally heard, their opinions finally given equal weight, their priorities finally afforded a chance to be reflected in the world: On Aug. 18, 1920, the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. But, while the certification of the women’s suffrage ...
Aug 12, 2020 · The upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment is a milestone in women’s suffrage, marking a culmination of decades-long efforts by women who called for full citizenship. This history, Stanford ...
Jul 21, 2020 · A century after women’s suffrage, the fight for equality isn’t over. Women struggled for decades to win the right to vote, but it’s taken even longer for all to be able to exercise it. To ...
