To create lasting change–regardless of the area–it takes consistent, joint efforts. The same can be said about the Suffrage Movement.
National Woman ’s Party officers gather for the 1920 Republican National Convention to fight back for confirmation of the Nineteenth Amendment .
Many influential women in the vote move pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment , which became law on August 18 , 1920 .
Women’s Suffrage Leaders: Abigail Adams
Back in 1776 , Abigail Adams sent a letter to her hubby , John Adams , who would later become America ’s second president . At the time , he was attend to the Continental Congress , where flush colonists , all men , were deciding whether or not to declare independence from Great Britain .
In the letter , Abigail urges him to allow woman a place in the new land ’s governance . Yet all the lecture of “ Oppressions … abuses and intrusion ” in the Declaration of Independence did nothing to change the position of women , who were will with few right , or that of striver , who had none . It was an inherently unequal society ironically build up on the concept of equation .
A youthful Abigail Adams . Source : About
National Woman’s Party officers gather for the 1920 Republican National Convention to fight for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
In that letter to John , Abigail wrote :
“ … in the newfangled code of law which I hypothesize it will be necessary for you to make , I desire you would remember the gentlewoman and be more generous and favorable to them than your root . Do not put such unlimited power into the manpower of the husband . think back , all hands would be tyrants if they could . If exceptional care and care is not give to the ladies , we are driven to agitate a rebellion , and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no representative or representation . ”
The genuine section of that letter from Abigail Adams to her hubby John . beginning : Vassar
A young Abigail Adams. Source:About
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Alas , cleaning woman could n’t vote for another 100 and a half .
A major power in the women ’s right to vote movement , Susan B. Anthony , was reasonably hardcore – she was once collar for voting . She also fought for abolition of slavery before the Civil War . after , she face jeers and mob when she make bold to propose that the new release Shirley Temple Black should have the right to do anything a white citizen could do .
Anthony partner with Elizabeth Cady Stanton for much of their lives . They push for the abolishment of slavery , temperance , and women ’s rights . Anthony had the public - verbalise prowess while Stanton had the writing power .
The actual section of that letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John. Source:Vassar
Anthony is better known today , but quotes that are attribute to her were often from speeches that Stanton wrote . Together , they built the foundation for the cleaning lady ’s vote motion . The weekly newspaper they founded , The Revolution , trumpeted their goal in its flag : “ Men , their right and nothing more ; women , their rights and nothing less . ”
Stanton is also notable because when she married in 1840 , she refused to be known as Mrs. Henry Stanton . “ I have very serious objections … to being called Henry . Ask our colorful sidekick if there ’s nothing to a name . Why are the slaves nameless unless they take that of their master ? Simply because they have no independent existence . They are simple chattels , with no civil or social rights . ”
It can be jar enough to take a Modern last name , but to fall behind one ’s first name as well is like stripping off a piece of a woman ’s hide and slapping on a sticker featuring her hubby ’s smile expression to cover the injury . It pass over out a woman ’s identity . Elizabeth Cady Stanton was n’t willing to be score out .
Lucretia Mott
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An emancipationist , Lucretia Mott fill Stanton at the World Anti - Slavery Convention in London in 1840 . They were exclude from participation at the event and were both right and unrestrained about it , so they come up with the thought of the First Woman ’s Rights Convention .
InThe account of Women Suffrage , Stanton call back :
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“ the men to whom [ Mott and Stanton ] had just listened had manifested their great need of some education on that interrogation . Thus a missionary work for the emancipation of fair sex … was then and there inaugurated . ”
Carrie Chapman Catt
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As the leader of the National American Women ’s Suffrage Association , Carrie Chapman Catt come up with the “ Winning Plan , ” a campaigning scheme that secured a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote .
She was so convinced that the programme would work that she founded the League of Women Voters before the amendment even take place .
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Lucy Burns and Alice Paul
Lucy Burns has a dubious preeminence ; she was the suffragist who spend the most clip in prison . More militant than Anthony , Stanton , or Catt , Burns was arrested at demonstrations time and again . In prison , she led hunger strikes and was force out - fed . Along with Alice Paul , she founded the National Woman ’s Party ( NWP ) .
A suffragist protests the treatment of Alice Paul in prison . reference : LOC
Alice Paul was believably the most prepare of the leaders of the women ’s suffrage movement . She gain bachelor-at-arms ’s and master ’s degrees , a Ph.D. , as well as three natural law degrees . She also acquire experience in war-ridden suffragist actions while studying in Britain . Back home , she prepare the largest women ’s suffrage parade in Washington , D.C. in 1913 .
A suffragist protests the treatment of Alice Paul in prison. Source:LOC
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But this did n’t make a dent in the opinions of Congress or Chief Executive Woodrow Wilson . So , in 1917 , Paul get together a group of women that became the first ever to picket the White House .
Over 18 month , they became known as the Silent Sentinels ; they taciturnly stride back and forth , carry signs with slogan like , “ Mr. President , how long must woman look for liberty ? ”
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They were arrest over and over again , and given long and longer sentences . Paul was also force - fed in prison when she attempted a hungriness smash . Less than two year later , women were at last granted the right to vote .
The Silent Sentinels picket the White House .
The Silent Sentinels picket the White House.
