What are the names of some of the leaders of the women's suffrage movement?

Question

give a source of where you found it

Answer 1

Susan B Anthony, Margaret Sanger. Margaret started the first clinic to be able to get birth control and was a major supporter of women having right to their own bodies. The first clinic (Planned Parenthood) was opened in 1916.

Answer 2

Susan B. Anthony was one of the two most famous in the USA. She was honored with a one dollar coin back in 1976 (the first woman to be on US currency).

I know she was arrested for voting when it was illegal for women to vote. What isn't common knowledge is there was a family meeting with her parents and siblings before she did it. They knew she'd go to jail and they were ok with it. She did go to jail and was released on bond and the case was never permitted to come to trial because the judge didn't want to set precedent.

How do I know about the meeting? Susan B. Anthony was a 2nd cousin to my great-grandfather. It's all family lore.

By the way, I had a similar family meeting before I started writing about and criticizing the current administration. The response? "Well, it won't be the first time in this family!"

Answer 3

Women's Suffrage: The Early Leaders

Among the first suffrage manuscripts acquired by the Library of Congress were the papers of Susan B. Anthony's close friend and colleague Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), [catalog record] who had launched the suffrage campaign by “sending forth that daring declaration of rights” at the country's first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.9 Four portfolios of Stanton documents accompanied Anthony's gift to the Library in 1903, to which the Library added other items donated by Stanton's children or purchased from dealers. Today, the Stanton Papers (1,000 items; 1814-1946; bulk 1840-1902) document her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, civil rights for African Americans, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements. The collection includes an official report and contemporary newspaper clippings relating to the historic 1848 convention, drafts of Stanton's memoirs Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897, and a draft of her controversial The Woman's Bible, a critical attack on church authority, which nearly splintered the suffrage movement when published in 1895

Susan B. Anthony's personal papers (500 items; 1846-1934; bulk 1846-1906) [catalog record] did not join her book collection at the Library until 1940, when her niece, Lucy E. Anthony, donated a small collection relating to her aunt's interests in abolition and women's education, her campaign for women's property rights and suffrage in New York, and her work with the National Woman Suffrage Association, the organization Anthony and Stanton founded in 1869 when the suffrage movement split into two rival camps at odds about whether to press for a federal women's suffrage amendment or to seek state-by-state enfranchisement. Also included are six scrapbooks compiled by Anthony's younger sister Mary, containing a valuable compilation of newspaper clippings, convention programs, and other contemporary accounts, which would be impossible to reassemble today.

Lucy Stone, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. [between 1840 and 1860].

Joining Stanton and Anthony as the third member of the nineteenth-century suffrage triumvirate was Lucy Stone (1818-1893). Two years after Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the 1848 convention, Stone helped coordinate the first national American women's rights convention, held in Worcester, Massachusetts. For many years, Stone earned a living as an antislavery and women's rights lecturer, and from 1872 until her death in 1893, she coedited with her husband, Henry Brown Blackwell, the premier women's suffrage newspaper, the Woman's Journal.

Stone's papers and those of her husband are held in the division's Blackwell Family Papers (29,000 items; 1759-1960; bulk 1845-90) [catalog record] They include information about the couple's famous wedding ceremony, in which they eliminated the bridal vow “to obey” and circulated a written protest against nineteenth-century marriage laws, which denied women all legal standing. The collection is an important source on the early suffrage movement, its connections to the abolitionist cause, and its unsuccessful campaign for a universal suffrage amendment as part of the American Equal Rights Association. Also documented is the movement's split after the Civil War into the American Woman Suffrage Association led by Stone, Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe, and the National Woman Suffrage Association led by Stanton and Anthony.

The Blackwell Family Papers document the national suffrage movement with a special emphasis on New England, whereas the papers (300 items; 1869-1905) of Michigan suffragist Olivia Bigelow Hall (1823-1908?) [catalog record] provide a picture of the local suffrage scene. In the last third of the nineteenth century, Hall organized meetings in her hometown of Ann Arbor, obtained speakers for rallies there, and corresponded with national leaders Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, and members of the American Equal Rights Association and National Woman Suffrage Association.

Answer 4

Yo Momma

Answer 5

Emmeline Pankhurst was a life long campaigner for women’s suffrage. She and her comrades achieved full equality of voting in the year of her death.

Emmeline Goulden married Dr Richard Pankhurst in 1879. Her husband had unsuccessfully attempted to introduce women’s suffrage to Parliament and had drafted the Married Women’s Property Acts, which had given some women limited voting rights at local government level.

Ten years after her marriage, Pankhurst founded the Women’s Franchise League, which, after much canvassing, achieved votes for women property owners at municipal elections. Although women could elect representative for local government and even stand for election, the League could not make any progress towards total female suffrage.

In 1903, Pankhurst founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), known as the suffragettes, an institution which became notorious for its aggressive tactics. A typical ploy was for women to chain themselves to railings in order to disrupt business. Some women blocked traffic; others disrupted Parliament and political meetings. Many women assaulted the constables who tried to deter them. They refused to pay fines and were sent to prison.

When in prison, many women went on hunger strike. Sometimes they were force-fed. Often, they had to be discharged from jail for fear that they might die. Parliament passed a particularly severe piece of legislation, The Prisoners (Temporary Discharge For Ill Health) Act, known generally as the ‘Cat and Mouse Act’. This Act allowed women to be discharged for a short time and later taken back to complete their sentences.

When the First World War started, Pankhurst and the WSPU ceased all protest and directed their efforts urging women to take over men’s jobs thereby releasing men for the armed services. Many of the suffragettes were involved in the White Feather Campaign, which attempted to shame men into joining up.

In 1918, Parliament granted the right to vote to women over 30, or to women over 21 who had degrees. There was little opposition in Parliament. ‘Votes for Women’ was seen as inevitable and no party wanted to be seen as the one that opposed women’s suffrage. Strangely, women aged between 21 and 30 could be elected to Parliament but could not vote.

Women were granted equal voting rights with men in 1928. Pankhurst lived just long enough to see it. She is buried in Brompton Cemetery [Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JE].

Answer 6

Kylie Minogue

Answer 7

Emily Pankhurst is the most famous.