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Susan B.Anthony
Susan B.Anthony is a leading proponent of woman suffrage the right to vote. -
Illegal Voting
the Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) reports that "The WCTU was organized by women who were concerned about the destructive power of alcohol and the problems it was causing their families and society. -
NAWSA Formed
Woman suffrage faced constant oopposition the liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition,while the textile industry worried that women would vote for restrictions on child labor.Many men simply feared the chaning role of women in society. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
In 1915, Catt returned to the United States to resume the leadership of NAWSA, which had become badly divided under the leadership of Anna Howard Shaw. In 1916, at a NAWSA convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Catt unveiled her "Winning Plan" to campaign simultaneously for suffrage on both the state and federal levels, and to compromise for partial suffrage in the states resisting change. Under Catt's dynamic leadership, NAWSA won the backing of the House and Senate, as well as state support -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth (19th) Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women the right to vote, prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920 after a long struggle known as the women’s suffrage movement.
