Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ames/Story County (Iowa) League has bestowed its Carrie Chapman Catt Award, which recognizes a member's contribution to the community, since 1993. [120] The League of Women Voters of Iowa also bestows a Carrie Chapman Catt Award annually, recognizing the significant accomplishments of one of its members. [121]
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 ...
At the 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Convention, Carrie Chapman Catt gives a speech calling for support for women's suffrage ("Let Mother Vote"). Alice Paul , exhausted by NAWSA's slow progress, proposes a march on Washington, D.C. on the day of President Woodrow Wilson 's inauguration, to pressure him to support a ...
While Carrie Chapman Catt ushered in women's right to vote, she also said "white supremacy will be strengthened by women's suffrage." While Carrie Chapman Catt ushered in women's right to vote ...
Founder Carrie Chapman Catt Headquarters building in Washington, DC, circa 1920s Board of Directors, 1920. The League of Women Voters was created in 1920 as the merger of two existing organizations, the long-established National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Council of Women Voters (NCWV).
This page was last edited on 17 January 2024, at 18:27 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Carrie Chapman Catt organized the WSP like a "political machine." [9] The bottom level of the group included individual party members, who then chose district leaders who would represent them at borough and city conventions. The top level of WSP was a board of all of the district chairs. [6]
The Women's Centennial Congress was organized by Carrie Chapman Catt and held at the Astor Hotel on November 25-27, 1940, to celebrate a century of female progress.