Women's Suffrage Movement

Women's Suffrage Movement

The Women's Suffrage Movement, an effort to secure equal rights - particularly the right to vote - for women, had existed in America since colonial days, but after the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868, classifying U.S. citizens as "male", the idea started to gain traction.

Fast Facts:

Western states adopted the right to vote, before Eastern states
Noted activists: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Wyoming: first state to give women the right to vote
1920: 19th Amendment ratified

Timeline

1868: 14th Amendment ratified defining citizens as "male"
1869: National Woman Suffrage Association founded
1878: Woman sufferage ammendment introduced to congress
1890: National American Woman Suffrage Association formed
1910: Washington grants woman suffrage
1911: California grants woman suffrage
1912: Arizona, Oregon, & Kansas grant woman suffrage
1917: New York, south Dakota, & Oklahoma grant suffrage
1920: 19th Amendment ratified granting universal woman suffrage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented her Declaration of Sentiments at a Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, that's frequently cited as inspiring a significant, organized pushed for female voting rights.

Along with fellow activist Susan B. Anthony, Stanton helped lead womans rights groups in lobbying womens suffrage. While they did not ultimately live to see the fruits of their labor, their effors led to the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920.

19th Ammendment

"Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

"Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

Categories

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The Mahalo Top 7

Wikipedia: History of women's suffrage in the United States
History.com: Woman's Suffrage
University of Missouri Kansas City: The Nineteenth Amendment
PBS: Battle for Suffrage, 1848-1920
Teacher Scholastic: Women's Suffrage Movement
The Library of Congress: Votes For Women
FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment

Women's Suffrage Movement Background and Key Figures

PBS Online: Women and the Vote: Alice Paul's Fight for Suffrage
National Women's History Museum: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage
History Now: Women's Suffrage
HBO Films: Iron Jawed Angels: Suffrage History: Historical Timeline
NWHM: Rights for Women
The Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership: US Suffrage Movement Timeline, 1792 to present
Women of the West Museum: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage 1860-1920

The Seneca Falls Convention

The U.S. Constitution Online: The Declaration of Sentiments
Library of Congress: Lucretia Mott

The Conservatives: American Woman Suffrage Association

Ohio History Central: Lucy Stone
Wikipedia: Henry B. Blackwell

The Radicals: National Woman Suffrage Association

PBS: Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony
NPS: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Victoria Woodhull: Victoria Woodhull
New York History: Matilda Joslyn Gage

Joining Forces: National American Woman Suffrage Association

Harvard University Library: National American Woman Suffrage Association Founded, 1890
Library of Congress: Women's Suffrage in the Progressive Era: The Blue Book
Women in History: Carrie Chapman Catt

The Militants: National Woman's Party

The Library of Congress: Historical Overview of the National Woman's Party
History Matters: Starving for Suffrage: "I Am Not Strong After These Weeks"
Wikipedia: Lucy Burns
Alice Paul.org: Alice Paul
Library of Congress: Inez Milholland

Women's Suffrage Movement Images and Media

HBO Films: Iron Jawed Angels: Photo Album
The Library of Congress: Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage: Prints and Photographs
The Library of Congress: By Popular Demand: "Votes For Women" Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920
Wisconsin Historical Images: Suffragists
YouTube: Womens Suffrage Movement (2:31)
YouTube: Profile of a Giant - Susan B. Anthony (2:49)

Women's Suffrage Movement Books and Historical Documents

Primary Resources

Harvard University Library: Collection of Digitized Historical Works on Suffrage
The National Archives: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
Google Book Search: Selected Articles on Woman Suffrage By Edith May Phelps
Google Book Search: The Wrong and Peril of Woman Suffrage by James Monroe Buckley
Google Book Search: Suffrage: All books with full text available online

Overviews and Histories

University of Rochester: Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
Questia: Women's Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History
Amazon.com: " Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 "
Amazon.com: Womens Suffrage: Books

Women's Suffrage Movement Blogs, Articles and News

Regions of Mind: "Early suffragists' struggle against prejudice " (2005)
Wisconsin History: The Woman's Suffrage Movement
New York Times Archives: Mrs. Catt Explains Women's Suffrage Defeat .pdf (1917)
Twain Quotes: Mark Twain Quotes on Suffrage
Library of Congress: "Marching For The Vote: Remembering The Woman Suffrage Parade Of 1913"
New York Times Archives: "Illinois Depends On Women's Votes" .pdf (1916)

Women's Suffrage Movement Timeline

1848: First women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. Declaration of Sentiments signed by 68 women and 32 men
1869: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association; Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association
December 1869: Wyoming Territory passes first women's suffrage law
1872: Victoria Woodhull runs for president
1890: The National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association
1919: Federal woman suffrage amendment passes House and Senate, is sent to states for ratification
August 26, 1920: The 19th Amendment is signed into law

Women's Suffrage Movement Satire and Humor

History Illustrated: Suffrage Cartoons
Author Stream: Political Cartoons, Suffrage
National Women's History Museum: Suffrage Cartoons
YouTube: Ending Women's Suffrage (3:18)
Library of Congress: Suffrage Campaign Scenes, Cartoons, and Ephemera
University of Missouri: Cartoons
The Onion: Constructionist Supreme Court To Revisit Women's Suffrage

Related Pages on Mahalo

Women's Rights Movement | Equal Rights Amendment | Right to Vote | 19th Amendment | 15th Amendment | Susan B. Anthony | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Victoria Woodhull

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