An increasingly pressing issue in the US
The daughter of lawyer and women's suffrage leader Belle Case La Follette, La Follette became engaged in the cause at an early age helping her mother. Through her acting career, she was able to make an impact by performing several times in the one-woman play ‘How the Vote was Won,' first in 1910, and again in 1912.
See also: Beyond the women's rights movement
Catt was one of the leading campaigners for the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote in 1920.
Stone, the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree, helped organize the 1850 National Women’s Right Convention, the first convention solely focused on women’s rights.
The American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war, and Civil War surgeon was the first and only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor. After the war, she worked as a writer and lecturer in support of the women's suffrage movement.
Notable quote: “The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”
Mott was a teacher at the Nine Partners School in Dutchess County, NY. She became interested in women’s rights upon discovering that male teachers at the school were paid significantly more than female staff.
As one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention, Mott has secured her place in history as one of the movement’s most important figures.
Though not a federal holiday, Florida, California, Wisconsin, and New York celebrate Susan B. Anthony Day. Washington, D.C. has also commemorated the suffragist’s birthday for more than a century.
A key figure in the women's suffrage movement, Anthony started collecting anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
Stone, along with Anthony and Stanton, was one of the three leading figures of the movement in the US during the 19th century.
Stanton was a feminist through and through. She addressed women-related issues well beyond voting rights, including women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce, the economic health of the family, and birth control.
She was seated in a queen’s chair at the Corcoran Art Gallery in D.C. where she shook hands for three hours.
Susan B. Anthony is likely the best known suffragist of her generation, traveling around the United States to give speeches, circulating petitions, and organizing local women's rights organizations.
Here are some facts about her, the movement she started, and the other women who helped her along the way. Click on!
Seneca Falls: igniting the fight for women's right to vote
On this day in 1848, the first women's rights convention was held in the US
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Susan B. Anthony is likely the best known suffragist of her generation, traveling around the United States to give speeches, circulating petitions, and organizing local women's rights organizations.
Here are some facts about her, the movement she started, and the other women who helped her along the way. Click on!