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Women’s Suffrage

By Karen Rosenberger

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To discover some of the notable women involved in the suffrage movement, click on

one of the names in the table below.

Susan B. Anthony

Anna Howard Shaw

Lucy Stone

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott Julia Ward Howe

Sojouner Truth

Frances Willard

Margaret Fuller

Carrie Chapman

Catt

Alice Paul Resource Page

Susan B. Anthony

Anthony never married. So, she was free to travel all over the country to speak on behalf of women and their rights. Fourteen years after her death, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed.

Anna Howard Shaw

Anna, at age twelve, took care of the family. In 1886 she graduated from Boston University as a doctor, but decided to continue working for the cause of woman's suffrage.

Lucy Stone

Lucy paid for her own school because her father did not believe in educating women.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Stanton was the mother of seven children. She was not able to travel around the country. However, she served the cause of women’s suffrage by writing pamphlets and speeches.

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Lucretia Mott

Mott was an abolitionist. But, when she wanted to attend the first Anti-slavery Society Convention, she was not allowed because she was a women. So, she founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

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Julia Ward Howe

Founded the American

Woman SuffrageAssociation in

1869.

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Sojouner Truth

In 1850, in addition to being an abolitionist, Truth decided to join the suffrage cause as well. She was a frequent speaker at women’s conventions.

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Frances Willard

After only four years of formal education, Willard went on to become the country’s first female college president.

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Margaret Fuller

Fuller’s father was disappointed that she had not been born a boy. He educated her as if she was. She continued her life devoted to education and went on to write Woman in the Nineteenth Century. The book was the most significant book on feminism of the time.

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Carrie Chapman Catt

Catt was elected president of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1900. Her efforts were instrumental in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

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Alice Paul

Paul led a massivewomen’s march in thefront of the WhiteHouse in 1913. Themarchers carried flagsand banners alldecorated with themessage: “Give Womenthe Vote.”

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Sources

• All of the picture sources courtesy of The Library of Congress’ American Memory Collection. http://memory.loc.gov/

• Text gathered and summarized from the Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States. ISBN# 0590051245

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