1920 Campaigned for the 19th Amendment, which gave U.S. women the right to vote

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; served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920; founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904 (later named International Alliance of Women) "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920" Wikipedia); "was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and was on all lists of famous American women" (Wikipedia); also founded Woman suffrage Party; wrote "Zenobia" in 1887, "The american sovereign" in 1888, "Subject & sovereign" in 1893, "Danger to Our Governemnt" in 1894, & "Women suffrage & Politics: The Inner Story of the suffrage Movement" in 1923 with Nettie Rogers Shuler; was also engaged in the international suffrage movement traveling to Africa, Asia. The South Pacific, Europe & South America between 1906-1913; WWI interrupted her travels on behalf of suffrage; organized the Pan-American Association for the Advancement of Women whose objectives were educational opportunities for women, the right to have equal guardianship with husbands of their children & the right to vote; 1923 founded the National Council of Women in Action in Peru; 1915 with Jane Addams founded the Women's Peace Party; 1924 was 1 of the founders of the National Committee on the Cause & Cure of War; 1938 was a charter member of the Provisional Council Against Anti-Semitism; helped organize the Women's Centennial Congress in NY in 1940; 1917 edited a guide for suffrage workers; worked for Jewish refugee relief efforts & child labor protection laws

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Social Justice - Voting Rights

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