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Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that gave some women the right to vote.
Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. [2]
For example, in The Suffrage Song Book, the song "Three Blind Men" is set to the air of "Three Blind Mice": [5] The title page of this book is a compilation of, "Original Songs...adapted to Popular Melodies." [5] The use of popular melodies, meant that women from varying circumstances and backgrounds could sing the songs. [4]
Jessie M. Soga (1870–1954) – singer, music teacher and suffragist Julia Solly (1862–1953) – British-born South African feminist, temperance activist and suffragist who co-founded Cape Women's Enfranchisement League and helped acquire the vote for white women only in 1930
Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896. This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or ...
Carrie Belle (Wilson) Adams (1859–1940) was the first American woman to conduct a public performance of Handel's oratorio, "Messiah." [1] An Ohio native and musical child prodigy who performed in concert for the first time at age seven, [2] she spent much of her life in Indiana, where she was a choral conductor and organist.
Young People's Luther League Convention Song Book [331] [332] The Parish School Hymnal (1926) [333] [334] The Primary Hymn Book, Hymns and Songs for Little Children (1936) [335] United Lutheran Church in America. Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church with Hymnal (1917) [286] Hymnal for the Sunday School (1922) [336]
Carrie was the daughter of Jack Stofer & Minnie Berry Grubbs Williams. The 1900 census states her birth as Feb. 1870. [2]She married at least three times; her husbands were William Jackson, Thomas Tipton, and John Whalon (also spelled Whallon or Whallen).