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The United States’ Women's Suffrage movement involved thousands of women, each with differing backgrounds. One way that the movement was made accessible to many was through music. [1] Lyrics to suffragist songs were often original sociopolitical commentary. [1]
Emmeline Pankhurst introduced the song as the WSPU's official anthem, replacing "The Women's Marseillaise". [4] The latter song was a setting of words by WSPU activist Florence Macaulay to the tune of La Marseillaise. [5] On 23 March 1911 the song was performed at a rally in the Royal Albert Hall.
The song was sung in many different settings, but most often as a form of protest or solidarity for women's rights in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The song was sung in order to lift the spirits of prisoners in Holloway Prison in 1908. [3] [4] Between 1908 and 1911, the Mascottes Ladies Band often performed "The Women's ...
In the United States, the 1884 song "The Equal-Rights Banner" was sung to the tune of the US national anthem by American activists for women's voting rights. [1] "The March of the Women" and "The Women's Marseillaise" were sung by British suffragettes as anthems of the women's suffrage movement in the 1900s–1910s.
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a 1999 documentary by Ken Burns [1] produced for National Public Radio and WETA. [2] The documentary explores the movement for women's suffrage in the United States in the 19th century, focusing on leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper. [72] Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. [73] Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist. [74]
Song Suffragettes is a weekly writer's round held in Nashville, Tennessee featuring rotating female country artists. [1] Song Suffragettes is a collective of female singer-songwriters who stand together in the face of systemic gender-disparity in the music industry. [2] In 2018, Song Suffragettes was featured in Elle magazine. [3]
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.