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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]
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.
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]
Ethel Smyth March of the Women Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage petitioners on the steps of the United States Capitol, 9 May 1914. Those in the front line are singing "The March of the Women". "The March of the Women" is a song composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton.
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.
The “gay feminist badass” who wrote the lyrics to “America the Beautiful,” the classic patriotic song. The Black teenager who refused to give up her bus seat to a White woman in Montgomery ...
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.