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The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was an American organization formed in 1913 led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns [1] to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. It was inspired by the United Kingdom's suffragette movement, which Paul and Burns had taken part in. Their continuous campaigning drew attention ...
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
The National Woman's Party was an outgrowth of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which had been formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to fight for women's suffrage. The National Woman's Party broke from the much larger National American Woman Suffrage Association , which had focused on attempting to gain women's suffrage at the ...
The Silent Sentinels' protests were organized by the National Women's Party (NWP), a militant women's suffrage organization. The NWP was first founded as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS) in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns following their organizing of NAWSA's woman suffrage parade in Washington DC in March 1913. [9]
The woman's suffrage movement, led in the nineteenth century by stalwart women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had its genesis in the abolitionist movement, but by the dawn of the twentieth century, Anthony's goal of universal suffrage was eclipsed by a near-universal racism in the United States.
Women wanted the same opportunities as men, most notably -- the right to vote. Thus the w omen's suffrage movement was born. SEE ALSO: A few (of many) incredible women throughout history
1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only. [3] 1913: The Senate votes on a women's suffrage amendment, but it does not pass. [3] 1914: Nevada grants women suffrage. [3] 1914: Montana grants women suffrage. [3]
In 1913, Stevens arrived in Washington to take part in the June picketing of the Senate.She did not plan to stay, but Alice Paul convinced her to do so. [7] She was hired by the NAWSA, [4] and was assigned to the newly formed Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS), [8] which had been created by Alice Paul and Mary Ritter Beard. [9]