Women

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Womens Suffrage

• By
• Karen Rosenberger

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To discover some of the notable women involved in
the suffrage movement, click on one of the names
in the table below.
Susan B. Anthony Anna Howard Shaw Lucy Stone
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Julia Ward Howe
Sojouner Truth Frances Willard Margaret Fuller
Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Paul Resource Page
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Susan B. Anthony

• Anthony never married. So, she was free to
  travel all over the country to speak on behalf of
  women and their rights. Fourteen years after her
  death, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed.

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Anna Howard Shaw

• Anna, at age twelve, took care of the family. In
  1886 she graduated from Boston University as a
  doctor, but decided to continue working for the
  cause of woman's suffrage.

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Lucy Stone

• Lucy paid for her own school because her father
  did not believe in educating women.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Stanton was the mother of seven children. She
  was not able to travel around the country.
  However, she served the cause of womens suffrage
  by writing pamphlets and speeches.

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Lucretia Mott

• Mott was an abolitionist. But, when she wanted
  to attend the first Anti-slavery Society
  Convention, she was not allowed because she was a
  women. So, she founded the Philadelphia Female
  Anti-Slavery Society.

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Julia Ward Howe

• Founded the American
• Woman Suffrage
• Association in 1869.

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Sojouner Truth

• In 1850, in addition to being an abolitionist,
  Truth decided to join the suffrage cause as well.
  She was a frequent speaker at womens
  conventions.

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Frances Willard

• After only four years of formal education,
  Willard went on to become the countrys first
  female college president.

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Margaret Fuller

• Fullers father was disappointed that she had
  not been born a boy. He educated her as if she
  was. She continued her life devoted to education
  and went on to write Woman in the Nineteenth
  Century. The book was the most significant book
  on feminism of the time.

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Carrie Chapman Catt

• Catt was elected president of the National Woman
  Suffrage Association in 1900. Her efforts were
  instrumental in the passage of the Nineteenth
  Amendment.

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Alice Paul

• Paul led a massive
• womens march in the
• front of the White
• House in 1913. The
• marchers carried flags
• and banners all
• decorated with the
• message Give Women
• the Vote.

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Sources

• All of the picture sources courtesy of The
  Library of Congress American Memory Collection.
  http//memory.loc.gov/
• Text gathered and summarized from the Scholastic
  Encyclopedia of Women in the United States.
  ISBN 0590051245
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