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Well known hymns were used again during this time period. The Battle Hymn of the Republic was parodied by women in a suffrage style song during a Women's Liberation March at Harvard. [4] The song was entitled, "The Battle Hymn of Women," replacing the lyrics, "glory, glory hallelujah," with, "move on over or we'll move on over you."
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.
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 Breck wrote over 1400 poems, some of which were used as hymn texts. She sometimes used the name Mrs Frank A. Breck for her writing. Describing her own approach to writing, she said: "I penciled verse under all sorts of conditions—over a mending basket, with a baby in arms, and sometimes even when sweeping or washing dishes, my mind moved to meter."
María Collado Romero (1885– c. 1968) – journalist, vice-president of the National Suffragist Party, then founder and president of the Democratic Suffragist Party of Cuba [37] Hortensia Lamar (1888–1967) – suffragist and president of the Club Femenino de Cuba and the Federación Nacional de Asociaciones Femeninas [38]
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 was the daughter of Jack Stofer & Minnie Berry Grubbs Williams. The 1900 census states her birth as Feb. 1870. [2]She married at least three times; her husbands were William Jackson, Thomas Tipton, and John Whalon (also spelled Whallon or Whallen).
Carrie Belle (Wilson) Adams (1859–1940) was the first American woman to conduct a public performance of Handel's oratorio, "Messiah." [ 1 ] An Ohio native and musical child prodigy who performed in concert for the first time at age seven, [ 2 ] she spent much of her life in Indiana , where she was a choral conductor and organist .