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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]
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 Chapman Catt. The suffrage movement declined in vigor during the years immediately after the 1890 merger. [159] 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 ...
American Woman Suffrage Association activists (15 P) Susan B. Anthony (2 C, 14 P) ... Carrie Chapman Catt (10 P) Members of the College Equal Suffrage League (23 P) K.
Two songs in particular are heavily reliant on historical text and on (American suffrage leader) Carrie Chapman Catt’s direct words, speeches and quotes, without paraphrasing. There are moments ...
The Woman Suffrage Party started with the Convention of Disfranchised Women. The Convention took place in Carnegie Hall on October 29, 1909, and was sponsored by the Interurban Suffrage Council (ISC). [4] [5] The ISC was a group created by Carrie Chapman Catt and made up of smaller suffrage organizations in New York City. [5]
In 1920, about six months before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, Emma Smith DeVoe and Carrie Chapman Catt agreed to merge the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Council of Women Voters to help newly enfranchised women exercise their responsibilities as voters. Originally only women could join the league, but in ...
Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt petitioned Speaker of the House Champ Clark on behalf of the National American Woman Suffrage Association on April 10, 1917, urging the House to create a Committee on Woman Suffrage. [4] She argued that the Judiciary Committee, which had jurisdiction over the issue, was too busy with other matters to address