Women's Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony

Nov 25, 1848

Susan B. Anthony was a leading proponent of woman suffrage. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Women Suffrage Association, which united with another group to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Illegal Voting

Nov 25, 1871

In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested their citizenship by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens, but then denied that citizenship conferred the right to vote.

Carry Nation and the WCTU

Nov 25, 1874

Named the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. Carry Nation walked into saloons, scolded the customers, and used her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor.

NAWSA

Nov 25, 1890

The National Women Suffrage Association united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Women Suffrage Association. It faced constant opposition. The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote for restrictions in child labor.

Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

Nov 25, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt was president of the NAWSA from 1900 to 1904, and was again in 1915. When she returned, she concentrated of five tactics: painstaking organization; close ties between local, state, and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; cautious lobbying; and gracious, ladylike behavior

19th Amendment

Nov 25, 1919

In 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920; 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.