Carrie Chapman Catt on the fight for women's suffrage
Listen to Carrie Chapman Catt speaking about the long struggle for women's suffrage.
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© UK Parliament Education Service (A Britannica Publishing Partner)From Britain's first mass-suffrage petition (1866) to the passage of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Questions and answers about women's suffrage.
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Public Domain videoWilliam Jennings Bryan's “Cross of Gold” speech, given at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, July 8, 1896.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn more about the women's suffrage movement in this interview with Dr. Colleen Shogan, vice chair of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission and senior vice president at the White House Historical Association, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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In her own words: Carrie Chapman Catt.
The organized women’s movement dates from 1848, when a convention to consider the rights of women was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
The committee drafting the list of woman’s wrongs found her grievances against the government of men to be the same number that American men had had against King George.
It took George Washington six years to rectify men’s grievances by war, but it took 72 years to establish women’s rights by law.
At least 1,000 legal enactments were necessary and every one was a struggle against ignorant opposition.
Woman suffrage is the long story of hard work and heartache crowned by victory.
The organized women’s movement dates from 1848, when a convention to consider the rights of women was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
The committee drafting the list of woman’s wrongs found her grievances against the government of men to be the same number that American men had had against King George.
It took George Washington six years to rectify men’s grievances by war, but it took 72 years to establish women’s rights by law.
At least 1,000 legal enactments were necessary and every one was a struggle against ignorant opposition.
Woman suffrage is the long story of hard work and heartache crowned by victory.