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Voting & Political Action

:: WOMEN & THE RIGHT TO VOTE :: VOTING RESOURCES FOR WOMEN :: SENTENCING OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY ::

More than ever it is vital for WOMEN TO VOTE. VOTE TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. VOTE TO PROTECT YOUR FUTURE. VOTE TO PROTECT THE FUTURE OF YOUR DAUGTHERS AND GRAND-DAUGTHERS, YOUR SONS AND GRAND-SONS.

Women & the Right to Vote

Section 1: The right of citizens of the United states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ~ The 19th Amendment, passed by Congress June 4, 1919 and ratified August 18, 1920.

Susan B. Anthony was arrested for attempting to vote in 1873. In an unprecedented move, the trial judge did not let the jury decide the case, instead pronounced her guilty, and denied her motion for a new trial. Read the sentencing portion from the trial here.

Warrant for Arrest, 14 November 1872
Whereas, Complaint has this day been made . . . on oath before me, . . . charging that Susan B. Anthony, on or about the fifth day of November, 1872, . . . did vote for a Representative in Congress of the United States, without having a lawful right to vote and in violation of section 19 of an act . . . entitled "An act to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union and for other purposes." ~ printed in the Rochester Union and Advertiser, 19 November 1872

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Susan B. Anthony House: Home of the American civil rights leader during the most politically active period of her life, and the site of her famous arrest for voting in 1872. Susan B. Anthony's story of courage and determination has been told and re-told to visitors to her Rochester, New York home on Madison Street for more than fifty years. Today, the house is a museum with National Historic Landmark status. The Susan B. Anthony Preservation District is a nine-block area around The Susan B. Anthony House and Susan B. Anthony Square.
cite: susanbanthonyhouse.org

Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were preeminent advocates of women's rights, especially women's right to vote. Active as reformers principally in the United States, Stanton and Anthony also gained an international following. The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony has assembled and is publishing the private and public writings of Stanton and Anthony to encourage research on their lives, work, and historical impact.
cite: ecssba.rutgers.edu

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: American leader in the women's rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States. (From 300 Women Who Changed the World.)
cite: eb.com

Not for Ourselves Alone
Experience the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Track key events in the suffrage movement, delve into historic documents and essays, and take a look at where women are today.
cite: pbs.org/stantonanthony/

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row. ~ Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) Suffragist and author of the Equal Rights Amendment

Alice Paul: Architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements on behalf of women in the 20th century. Born on January 11, 1885 to Quaker parents in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Alice Paul dedicated her life to the single cause of securing equal rights for all women. Few individuals have had as much impact on American history as has Alice Paul. Her life symbolizes the long struggle for justice in the United States and around the world. Her vision was the ordinary notion that women and men should be equal partners in society.
About Alice Paul
cite: alicepaul.org

Lucy Burns (January 28 1879 -December 22 1966)
cite: spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

Iron Jawed Angels:
Iron Jawed Angels recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920.
Educational Kit [pdf file]
cite: hbo.com/films/ironjawedangels/

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Lucretia Mott (1793 - 1880)
In the 1830s Lucretia (Coffin) Mott advocated the radical idea that slavery was sinful and must be abolished. She was one of several American delegates to the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, but the women were denied seats. The lesson was clear for Mott and young Elizabeth Cady Stanton. How could women fight for the rights of others unless they enjoyed rights of their own? In 1848, she met with Stanton and helped to plan the first woman's rights convention. Mott delivered the opening and closing addresses at the Seneca Falls Convention, and her husband James chaired the proceedings at the Wesleyan Chapel.
cite: greatwomen.org

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 - 1947)
Under her leadership, the days of isolated efforts and lost causes would end. More than any other woman except Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt was responsible for securing women's right to vote. In 1915, on the heels of a remarkable effort in New York State, Catt became the head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and put into effect a secret "winning plan".
cite: greatwomen.org

Lydia Maria Child (1802 - 1880)
spent her life advocating for the rights of slaves and women. She was a founding member of the Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Association and authored The History of the Conditions of Women in Various Ages and Nations, a publication that went on to influence the next generation of suffragists.
cite: greatwomen.org

A better world awaits the generation that absorbs what women and men have to share about life from a joint perspective. Global discrimination and violence against women will end. We have much to work toward . . . If we - and future generations - are to learn all the lessons of the past upon which to build the future, we must be aware of the true experiences and contributions of women. Clearly, men cannot get there alone. Together, all things are possible. ~ Karen Staser, Founder, National Women's History Museum

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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813 - 1876)
The work of Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis as a women's rights advocate, social reformer, educator, and author extended over forty years. In the late 1830s, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Ernestine Rose, with whom she joined in a petition to the New York legislature that eventually led to the passage of the Married Women's Property Act in 1848 that gave married women control of their own personal property and real estate.
cite: greatwomen.org

Anne Dudley (1813 - 1876)
In the final years of the struggle to pass the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote, Anne Dudley was central to both the national campaign (serving as National Director) and the critical struggle in her home state of Tennessee, which was to become the 36th and final state to support women's suffrage, thus making the Amendment the law of the land. In 1917 she was chosen Vice President of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, working closely with President Carrie Chapman Catt in planning the master strategies of the campaign that finally succeeded in 1920.
cite: greatwomen.org

Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage: The first American women's rights convention was held in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York. At that convention, the delegates adopted a platform that called for a broad range of social, economic, legal, and political reforms that would dramatically raise the status of women in American life. To the surprise of most of us today, the demand for women's right to vote (called woman suffrage) was the most controversial reform proposed at the convention. From the time it was first formally proposed in 1848, gaining the right to vote took the women's movement 72 years of struggle to achieve. This exhibit examines the development of a distinct female political culture and imagery that evolved to promote voting rights for women.
cite: nmwh.org

Crystal Eastman (1881 - 1928)
Crystal Eastman, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, struggled throughout her life for equal rights and civil liberties for all. As the first female member of New York State's Commission on Employers' Liability and Causes of Industrial Accidents, Eastman drafted the country's first workers' compensation law - that later became the model for workers' compensation throughout the nation. She was also a leader of the peace movement, working with Carrie Chapman Catt to organize the Carnegie Hall meeting that led to the founding of the Woman's Peace Party of New York.
cite: greatwomen.org

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Voting Resources for Women

• Voting Rights & Democracy
• League of Women Voters
• Women in Politics
• American Association of University Women
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• National Women's Health Information Center
• Women Leaders Online, Women Organizing for Change

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