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Womens Rights Movement 1848-1920
The beginning of the rights for women's suffrage in the U.S.grew out of a larger womens rights movement. The first gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.The principal organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a mother of four from upstate New York, and the Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott. -
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Women's Suffrage in the Progressive Era
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Factions of the suffrage movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), which directed its efforts toward changing federal law and opposed the 15th Amendment because it excluded women. Lucy Stone, a one time Massachusetts antislavery advocate and a prominent lobbyist for women’s rights, formed the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). -
Wyoming Women's voting rights Pioneer
The first state to grant women complete voting rights was Wyoming in 1869.Three other western states—Colorado (1893), Utah (1896), and Idaho (1896)—followed shortly after NAWSA was founded. -
Women's Suffrage
The largest single reform movement of the progressive era was the right for woman suffrage. In 1890,Mississsippi enacts a poll tax, which most African Americans can't afford to pay. Setting precedent for other southern states. -
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Womens Suffrage
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the late 19th century,many suffrage advocates presented their views in terms of "natural rights," arguing that women deserve the same rights as men-including first and foremost the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote of woman as "the arbiter of her own destiny...if we are to consider her as a citizen, as a member of a great nation, she must have the same rights as all other members." her role as "mother,wife, sister, daughter" was "incidental" to her larger role as part of society. -
Sufffragists become better organized
Under the leadership of Anna Howard Shaw, a Boston social worker, and Carre Chapman Catt, a journalist from Iowa, the National American Woman Suffrage Association grew in membership of about 13,000 in 1893 to over 2 million in 1917. Many suffragists argued that enfranchising women would help the temperance movement by giving its largest group of supporters a political voice. Some suffragists advocates claimed that once women had the right to vote, war would become a thing of the past. -
1 March 1900 Lillie Devereux Blake
March 1900, due to ideological conflicts and political infighting within the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Lillie Devereux Blake broke from NAWSA and formed the National Legislative League, with herself as president and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as honorary president. Blake had become increasingly disenchanted by what she felt was a too conservative approach for women’s suffrage and equality. Blake’s mission within the National Legislative League was to advance “better conditions -
1903--NWTUL
The National Women’s Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) formed in 1903 in Boston, comprising a mix of wealthy, middle, and working-class women, who pushed for labor reforms and wage-earning women’s participation in labor unions. The alliance formed between wealthy and working class women through the NWTUL strengthened the feminist movement and raised awareness of the inequity of the “family wage” concept, in which unions favored wages for men to support whole families without the contributio -
NAOWS
In 1911, several antisuffrage groups merged to form the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS), which was headquartered in New York City. NAOWS’s platform for opposing women’s suffrage included reasons such as giving women the right to vote would erode women’s sphere of domesticity and the “cult of true womanhood” (piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness). Opting to avoid bringing awareness of their cause through political means, the “antis” concentrated their efforts by -
Alice Paul
In 1912, Alice Paul, a well-educated Quaker woman, entered the suffrage movement scene, after being influenced by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters during her time studying at university in England. Paul supported a push to broaden the suffragist movement to the federal level instead of just the state level. She joined NAWSA and assumed command of its Congressional Committee in Washington, D.C. Paul organized one of the largest protests of the suffrage cause on March 3, 1913, the eve of Pr
