The Women’s Suffrage Movement

THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

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THE SPEEDY SUCCESS OF OUR CAUSE DEPENDS UPON THE ZEALOUS AND

UNTIRING EFFORTS OF BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE MONOPOLY OF THE PULPIT, AND FOR THE SECURING TO WOMAN AN EQUAL

PARTICIPATION WITH MEN IN THE VARIOUS TRADES, PROFESSIONS AND

COMMERCE.The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, Seneca Falls, 1848

The Seneca Falls Convention planted the first seeds for women’s suffrage

A VINTAGE POSTCARD FEATURING A MAN AND WOMAN EXCHANGING QUIPS ABOUT WOMEN’S

RIGHTS, CIRCA 1910

Source: Getty Images

MEN LOOKING AT MATERIAL

POSTED IN THE WINDOW OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-

SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HEADQUARTERS, CIRCA 1911

Source: Library of Congress

REPRESENTATIVES EDWIN WEBB AND STANLEY BOWDLE, CONGRESSMEN WHO STRUCK DOWN THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

AMENDMENT IN 1915

Source: Library of Congress

MANY WESTERN STATES WERE THE FIRST TO GIVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE

CROWD OF WOMEN REGISTERING FOR JURY DUTY AFTER GAINING THE RIGHT TO VOTE,

PORTLAND OREGON, 1912

Source: Wikimedia Commons

A SUFFRAGE PARADE IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1912

Source: Library of Congress

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION PARADE, CIRCA 1912-1918

Source: New York Public Library

A SUFFRAGIST, “MRS. SUFFERN,”

HOLDS A SIGN FOR HER CAUSE,

1914

Source: Library of Congress

PENNANT USED BY SUFFRAGISTS

“YOU ASK US TO WALK WITH

YOU, DANCE WITH YOU,

MARRY YOU. WHY DON’T

YOU ASK US TO VOTE WITH

YOU?”

NOV. 2 1915Source: New York Public Library

MRS. W.L. PRENDERGAST, MRS. W.L. COLT,

DORIS STEVENS, AND

ALICE PAUL CIRCA 1910-

1915

Source: Library of Congress

SUFFRAGIST HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH

SPEAKING TO A LARGE CROWD OF

MEN ON WALL

STREET IN NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA 1915-1920

Source: Library of Congress

NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY SUFFRAGIST PUBLISHING OFFICE 1916

Source: Harris & Ewing, Wikimedia Commons

WOMAN SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS IN CLEVELAND, OHIO

Source: Library of Congress

SUFFRAGISTS MARCH IN OCTOBER 1917, DISPLAYING PLACARDS CONTAINING THE SIGNATURESOF OVER ONE MILLION NEW YORK WOMEN DEMANDING TO VOTE. Source: Wikimedia

Commons

THREE SUFFRAGISTS CASTING VOTES IN

NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA

1917

Source: Library of Congress

New York was the first Eastern state to

give women suffrage, on Nov. 6th

1917

NATIONAL WOMEN’S PARTY

PROTEST BANNER, 1917

Source: Courtesy The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum

WOMEN PARTICIPATING IN A PICKET LINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, NOV. 10 1917

Source: Library of Congress

WOMEN PICKETING IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE

Source: Library of Congress

Source: Library of Congress

Picketers left to right: • Mrs. Catherine

Martinette, Eagle Grove, Iowa.

• Mrs. William Kent, Kentfield, California.

• Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, Easton, Md.

• Mrs. C.T. Robertson, Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Miss Cora Week, New York City.

• Miss Amy Juengling, Buffalo, N.Y.

• Miss Hattie Kruger, Buffalo, N.Y.

• Miss Belle Sheinberg, N.Y.C.

• Miss Julia Emory, Baltimore, Md.

LEFT: OLDEST

PICKETER, MARY NOLAN

AND YOUNGEST PICKETER,

MATILDA YOUNG (INSET)

RIGHT: LUCY BURNS IN THE OCCOQUAN WORK HOUSE

Source: Library of Congress

Source: Jailed for Freedom, Doris Stevens

WOMEN LEAVING THE OCCOQUAN WORKHOUSE AFTER BEING JAILED FOR

PROTESTING AND SUBJECTED TO HORRIBLE

CONDITIONS

TOP: ELIZABETH KALB ON A STRETCHER

CENTER: KATE

HEFFELFINGER BROUGHT TO HEADQUARTERS BY

JAIL ATTENDANT

BOTTOM: DORA LEWIS BEING ASSISTED FROM

AMBULANCE

Source: Jailed for Freedom, Doris Stevens

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

BY STATE AT THE TIME

OF THE 19TH AMENDMEN

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Source: Library of Virginia

RATIFICATION OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT AUGUST 26, 1920

Source: Library of Congress