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Carry Nation and the WCTU
Carry Nation was an American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. She is particularly noteworthy for attacking the property of alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was one of the strongest advocates of Women's rights in the mid-19th century, and is a representative figure of this politically oriented types of feminists politics. . In 1872 she was arrested after casting an 'illegal' vote in the presidential election. She was fined $100 but refused to pay. -
Illegal Voting
Anthony and her three sisters entered a voter registration office set up in a barbershop. The four Anthony women were part of a group of fifty women Anthony had organized to register in her home town of Rochester. As they entered the barbershop, the women saw stationed in the office three young men serving as registrars. Anthony walked directly to the election inspectors and, as one of the inspectors would later testify, "demanded that we register them as voters." -
NAWSA Formed
in February, 1890 the newly unified National American Woman Suffrage Association held its first convention in Washington, D.C., combining the AWSA and NWSA memberships. Stone, 72 years old, was too weak with heart problems and respiratory illness to attend its first convention, but was unanimously elected chair of the executive committee. After Anthony asked the assembled delegates not to "vote for any human being but Mrs. Stanton", Stanton was elected president, and Anthony as the VP. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tatics
Key coordinator of the woman suffrage movement and skillful political strategist, Carrie (Lane) Chapman Catt revitalized the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and played a leading role in its successful campaign to win voting rights for women. In 1920 she founded the League of Women Voters upon ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
19 Amendment!
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution.
