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Securing the Franchise for Women (Narrative Account 1865-1992 (NWSA led by…
Securing the Franchise for Women
Key Individuals
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B Anthony
Lucretia Mott
Lucy Stone
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
Key Organisations
Women's Rights Convention (WRC) - Seneca Falls, NY State, 1848
The American Women's Suffrage Association (AWSA) 1869
The National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) 1869
The National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) formed by merger of NWSA and AWSA 1890
Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage 1913 (later National Women's Party 1917)
Narrative Account 1865-1992
NWSA led by
Stanton
and
Anthony
fought a more aggressive campaign using traditional tactics for a federal amendment for women to get the right to vote
After
15th Amendment
AWSA and NWSA form to
NAWSA
. In 1900, Catt took leadership and campaigned moderately (lobbying, leafleting demonstrating etc.). Men and women response limited and 1905 = only 17,000 members. 1915 = 100,000 and 1917 =
2 million
. Progress was slow and at state level
Women suffrage movement split over
14th Amendment
.
Stone
and AWSA wanted to fight for suffrage of black women and securing women the vote at state level
Eve of WW1, radical movement wing formed by
Paul
. The
CUWS
replicated militant tactics of
British Suffragettes
(slashing art gallery paintings, hunger strikes, blowing up mail boxes)
White, educated middle-class women 'infuriated' by extension of franchise to all men in
15th Amendment 1870
regardless off wealth, colour or education
1918, 20 states gave women right to vote at state level, probably down to peaceful work of NAWSA
Properly started pre-Civil War when Mott and Stanton founded WRC. Debated reform issues in addition to voting, property rights, divorce rights and access to their children
Gained the right to vote in national elections in 1919.
19th Amendment became law in August 1920
once 36 states (3/4 of America) ratified the law. President Wilson sympathised with CUWS who were force fed. Their war effort made demand for political equality hard to resist.
Campaign to win vote spearheaded by white, middle-class women (Mott, Anthony and Stanton) in early 19th Century. Part of broader 'reform movement' campaigning against slavery, alcohol and improving social conditions for poor