This meticulously edited collection presents the most prominent figures of the Women's suffrage movement in the United States of America and the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul. This edition includes as well the complete 6 volume history of the movement - from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. Jane Addams (1860-1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) 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. Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist.
Anna Dickinson: I certainly do not intend to fight Mr. Collier. I believe I have the name of not being a belligerent woman. Mr. Collier says sympathy is one thing and logic is another. Very true! I did not speak of the 40,000 women in ...
"A biography of Lucy Stone, who, while often overshadowed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others, played a pivotal role in the woman's rights movement and fought for gender equality throughout her life"--
"A history of Black women's struggle to achieve voting rights in the United States, identifying key heroines who contributed to the suffrage movement, as well as their communities"--
Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, a former captain in the British army, was also interested in the creation of a workingclass 'Labour Army'. 'The Labour Training Corps,' he had written in the Daily Herald, 'has been instituted to provide the ...
This exciting collaboration with the New York Times will reveal the untold stories of the diverse heroines who fought for the 19th amendment.
... Rachel, 127 Foster, Stephen S., 28, 75–76 “Fourteen Points” speech, 244, 250 Fourteenth Amendment, 54–57, 59, 61, 71, 85, 98, 101, 102, 104, 159, 252 proposed woman suffrage language, 56–57, 85 Fowler, Charles, 107 France, 189, 241, ...
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This is how history should be told to kids—with photos, illustrations, and captivating storytelling.
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The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York City and beyond came together to help women gain the right to vote.