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It commemorates three founders of America’s women’s suffrage movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott.
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The leaders of this campaign—women like Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Ida B. Wells—did not always agree with one another, but each was committed to the enfranchisement of all American women.
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Anthony was one of the leaders of the modern Women’s Suffrage movement that followed the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the NWSA first. The pair believed that instead of supporting the Fifteenth Amendment as it was, women’s rights activists should fight for women to be included as well. They started the NWSA to lead this effort.
Fueling the discord, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton accepted money from George L. Train, an opponent of black civil rights, to launch The Revolution, advocating for “Educated Suffrage, Irrespective of Sex or Color.”
It commemorates three founders of America’s women’s suffrage movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott.
While women were not always united in their goals, and the fight for women’s suffrage was complex and interwoven with issues of civil and political rights for all Americans, the efforts of women like Ida B. Wells and Alice Paul led to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Suffragette is based on true events, but how true does it stay to the people and incidents it depicts? Mulligan’s Maud is an original character — the details of her life were sketched in part from the real memoirs of seamstress and suffragette Hannah Mitchell.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the more radical National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) that tried to win suffrage at the Constitutional level. NWSA argued that the Fifteenth Amendment, which enfranchised blacks, should be abandoned in favor of a universal suffrage amendment.
Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. Wyoming becomes the 1st state to grant women suffrage in state elections.
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The wave formally began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 when three hundred men and women rallied to the cause of equality for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (d. 1902) drafted the Seneca Falls Declaration outlining the new movement’s ideology and political strategies.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton became a leader of the women’s suffrage movement after helping draft the Declaration of Sentiments on July 8, 1868. She was the main author and included most of the ideas from Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson.
If you’re familiar with only one women’s suffrage pioneer in history, it’s probably Susan B. Anthony, and with good reason. Born into a Quaker family in 1820, her family raised her to speak her mind and value independence.
Suffragists believed in peaceful, constitutional campaign methods. In the early 20th century, after the suffragists failed to make significant progress, a new generation of activists emerged. These women became known as the suffragettes, and they were willing to take direct, militant action for the cause.
She never got married or had children. She was the suffragist who spent the most time in jail. The Lucy Burns Institute was named in her honor. The Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, VA, the prison she was held in during the Night of Terror, is the location of The Lucy Burns Museum.
Catt retired from her national suffrage work after the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. Before she retired, she established the League of Women Voters on February 14, 1920, at the NAWSA national convention in Chicago to encourage women to use their right to vote.
The death of one suffragette, Emily Davison, when she ran in front of the king’s horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, made headlines around the world. … The suffragette campaign was suspended when World War I broke out in 1914.
In early 20th-century Britain, the growing suffragette movement forever changes the life of working wife and mother Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan). Galvanized by political activist Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Watts joins a diverse group of women who fight for equality and the right to vote. Faced with increasing police action, Maud and her dedicated suffragettes must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, risking their jobs, homes, family and lives for a just cause.
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