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To discover some of the notable women involved in the suffrage movement, click on
one of the names in the table below.
Susan B. Anthony
Anna Howard Shaw
Lucy Stone
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott Julia Ward Howe
Sojouner Truth
Frances Willard
Margaret Fuller
Carrie Chapman
Catt
Alice Paul Resource Page
Susan B. Anthony
Anthony never married. So, she was free to travel all over the country to speak on behalf of women and their rights. Fourteen years after her death, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed.
Anna Howard Shaw
Anna, at age twelve, took care of the family. In 1886 she graduated from Boston University as a doctor, but decided to continue working for the cause of woman's suffrage.
Lucy Stone
Lucy paid for her own school because her father did not believe in educating women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Stanton was the mother of seven children. She was not able to travel around the country. However, she served the cause of women’s suffrage by writing pamphlets and speeches.
Lucretia Mott
Mott was an abolitionist. But, when she wanted to attend the first Anti-slavery Society Convention, she was not allowed because she was a women. So, she founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Julia Ward Howe
Founded the American
Woman SuffrageAssociation in
1869.
Sojouner Truth
In 1850, in addition to being an abolitionist, Truth decided to join the suffrage cause as well. She was a frequent speaker at women’s conventions.
Frances Willard
After only four years of formal education, Willard went on to become the country’s first female college president.
Margaret Fuller
Fuller’s father was disappointed that she had not been born a boy. He educated her as if she was. She continued her life devoted to education and went on to write Woman in the Nineteenth Century. The book was the most significant book on feminism of the time.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Catt was elected president of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1900. Her efforts were instrumental in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Alice Paul
Paul led a massivewomen’s march in thefront of the WhiteHouse in 1913. Themarchers carried flagsand banners alldecorated with themessage: “Give Womenthe Vote.”