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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]
Carrie Chapman Catt. One of Catt's first actions as president was to implement the "society plan," a campaign to recruit wealthy members of the rapidly growing women's club movement, whose time, money and experience could help build the suffrage movement.
Catt ca. 1914. In 1915 she returned to NAWSA and was re-elected president. She geared the organization's strategy toward what would later become the "Winning Plan", that of lobbying more states to grant women the vote in order to build momentum for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage in federal elections as well.
Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, organized the "Winning Plan" that helped secure passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1900, Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Catt revitalized NAWSA, turning the focus of the ...
When Carrie Chapman Catt was appointed head of the NAWSA's Organization Committee in 1895, it was unclear how many local chapters the organization had or who their officers were. Catt began revitalizing the organization, establishing a plan of work with clear goals for every state every year.
In the fall of 1916, Carrie Chapman Catt came to speak at the WWSA conference in Milwaukee. [76] By fall of 1916, Youmans and other suffrage group presidents pledged to support the "Winning Plan" that Catt had devised for the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [76]
The journal was eventually sold to the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission who was headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, the journal was renamed to The Woman Citizen [29], three years later the 19th amendment was passed, and their was a decline in activism regarding the general sphere of woman's rights. The journal continued to publish, but now only ...
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.