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Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. [2]
The Women's Centennial Congress was organized by Carrie Chapman Catt and held at the Astor Hotel on November 25-27, 1940, to celebrate a century of female progress.
The Committee held its first session on January 3, 1918, and heard testimony from Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, and others in favor of the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage. [10] On January 8, the Committee ordered a favorable report on the amendment.
While Carrie Chapman Catt ushered in women's right to vote, she also said "white supremacy will be strengthened by women's suffrage."
Carrie Chapman Catt organized the WSP like a "political machine." [9] The bottom level of the group included individual party members, who then chose district leaders who would represent them at borough and city conventions. The top level of WSP was a board of all of the district chairs. [6]
Iron Jawed Angels is a 2004 American historical drama film directed by Katja von Garnier.The film stars Hilary Swank as suffragist leader Alice Paul, Frances O'Connor as activist Lucy Burns, Julia Ormond as Inez Milholland, and Anjelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt.
Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896. This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or ...
At the 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Convention, Carrie Chapman Catt gives a speech calling for support for women's suffrage ("Let Mother Vote"). Alice Paul , exhausted by NAWSA's slow progress, proposes a march on Washington, D.C. on the day of President Woodrow Wilson 's inauguration, to pressure him to support a ...