WEBDec 12, 2019 · Jone Johnson Lewis. Updated on December 12, 2019. Many women worked to win the vote for women, but a few stand out as more influential or pivotal than the rest. The organized effort for women's suffrage began most seriously in America and then influenced suffrage movements around the world.
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Women’s Suffrage - The U.S. Movement, Leaders & 19th Amendment - HISTORY
WEBOct 29, 2009 · Print Page. Getty Images. The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to...
WEBOct 14, 2009 · Alice Paul, 1885-1977. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. Alice Paul makes a toast to Tennessee's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Alice...
WEBMar 29, 2024 · Women’s suffrage, the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections. Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century.
WEBDescribing women's suffrage as the cornerstone of the women's movement, it was later circulated as a women's rights tract. [64] Several of the women who played leading roles in the national conventions, especially Stone, Anthony and Stanton, were also leaders in establishing women's suffrage organizations after the Civil War. [65]
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Meet the Suffragists - Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers
WEBJulia Ward Howe . Author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” Frances Willard . “I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” “Women bring all voters into the world. Let women vote.” a suffragist’s picket sign. Sojourner Truth . “Ain’t I a Woman?” Elizabeth Cady Stanton . She refused to “obey.” Alice Paul .
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Susan B. Anthony | National Women's History Museum
WEBChampion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Declaration of Sentiments - HISTORY
WEBNov 9, 2009 · Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the women’s suffrage movement and the women’s rights movement.
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Suffragist Biographies | National Women's History Museum
WEBAna Roqué de Duprey. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Lucy Stone. Mary Church Terrell. Sojourner Truth. Harriet Tubman. Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Suffragist Biographies: Women Who Built the Movement.
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Women’s suffrage - US History, 19th Amendment, Voting Rights
WEBAnthony and Stanton were the leaders of this organization, which held a convention every year for 50 years after its founding. In 1869 another organization, the American Woman Suffrage Association, was founded by Lucy Stone with the aim of securing woman suffrage by obtaining amendments to that effect in the constitutions of the various states.
