Besides Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, there were lots of women's rights activists.
Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Stone, and Alice Paul are some of the leaders too. These people have met Susan, Elizabeth, or Lucretia during the Women's Suffrage Movement. |
Carrie Chapman CattBorn in January 9, 1851-Ripon, Wisconsin
Died in March 9,1947-New Rochelle, New York Carrie was in the Iowa Women Suffrage Association. In 1904, she was in the National American Association and in 1904 was in the International Women Suffrage Alliance. She "came of a Winning Plan that helped pass the 19th Amendment in 1920."-Bio.com The "Winning Plan" was that she told the National American Women Suffrage Association members "to focus solely on the issue of suffrage and the passage of a federal amendment. So sure that women would get the right to vote, she helped establish the League of Women Voters to encourage women to use their hard-won right in 1920 before the amendment was passed."-Bio.com |
Lucy StoneBorn in August 13, 1818-West Brookfield, Massachusetts
Died in October 18,1893-Drochester,Massachusetts Lucy was 1st women in Massachusetts to earn a bachelor's degree-graduated in 1847 with honors. She worked in the American Antislavery Society. In 1850, she held the first national women's rights convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her speech there at the convention "was reprinted in newspapers nationwide."-Bio.com Lucy was "president of the New Jersey Women Suffrage Association, which would later by succeeded by the League of Women Voters of New Jersey in 1920."-Bio.com Lucy helped form the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Equal Rights Association (1866). In 1890, her daughter Alice Stone Blackwell and Harriot Stanton Blatch (Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Daughter) helped made the National American Women Suffrage Association. |
Alice PaulBorn in January 11,1885-Moorestown, New Jersey
Died in July 9,1977 Alice was the member of the National American Women Suffrage and "was served as the chair of it's congressional committee."-Bio.com Alice helped form the congressional union for women suffrage Lucy Burns which was the National Women's Party. The National Women's Party were also known as the Silent Sentinels. They "picketed the White House under the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1917, making them the first group to take such action . Paul was jailed in October and November...as a result of protests."-Bio.com |