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		The woman who wishes to be a teacher or a nurse takes her training in public institutions, as she formerly went to the factory to spin, not because she wishes primarily to leave home but because her work has been transferred.
		The grievance which every thinking, self-respecting American woman feels is the discrimination which invites to our land the men of all the nations of the earth, naturalizes them after a five years' residence, automatically enfranchises them under all State constitutions, and then commands American women to seek the ballot at their hands.
		During the suffrage campaign in England this weapon was used for the double purpose of forcing the release of imprisoned militant suffragettes and of compelling the British government to act.
	marchand.ucdavis.edu /lessons/suffrage/suffrage.html (7498 words)

	The National American Woman Suffrage Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, both founded in 1869, were the main suffrage organizations in the U.S. during the 19th century.
		Its strategy was to push for suffrage at the state level, believing that state-by-state support would eventually force the federal government to pass the amendment.
		The National American Woman Suffrage Association represented millions of women and was the parent organization of hundreds of smaller local and state groups.
	www.brynmawr.edu /library/exhibits/suffrage/nawsa.html (315 words)

	Mississippi Women and the Woman Suffrage Amendment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		National suffrage leaders concluded that since one of the most conservative states in the nation had given serious consideration to enfranchising women in order to restore White supremacy in politics, suffrage leaders might use the race issue to persuade the South to lead the way for woman suffrage.
		The women working for woman suffrage were white, middle- and upperclass women, and were radical, for their culture, only on the issue of woman suffrage.
		She was highly influential in convincing southern suffrage leaders to support the proposed amendment — even though a former friend and ally, New Orleans suffrage leader Kate Gordon, a strong state's rights suffragist, opposed woman suffrage by federal action and urged all southern women to oppose it.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature23/women.html (3077 words)

	Timeline from: A History of the American Suffragist Movement, © The Moschovitis Group, Inc.
		Suffrage efforts nearly come to a complete halt as women put their enfranchisement aside and pitch in for the war effort.
		Anthony retires as the president of the National American and, to the surprise of many, recommends Carrie Chapman Catt as her successor; Catt is elected.
		The CU alienates leaders of the National American association by campaigning against pro-suffrage Democrats in the congressional elections.
	www.suffragist.com /timeline.htm (1968 words)

	VHS MSS: Vermont Equal Suffrage Association Papers
		The papers of the Vermont Equal Suffrage Association were collected for the most part by one of its members, Annette Parmelee, and include documents generated by the association and publications from national suffrage organizations.
		The Vermont Woman's Suffrage Association was organized in 1883 and held its first annual meeting in January 1885 in Barton Landing.
		Among them were the Federal Association, with Olympia Brown as president in 1892; the College Equal Suffrage League organized in 1908 by M. Cary Thomas ; the National League for Woman Suffrage in 1911; the Congressional Union formed in 1913 with Alice Paul as director.
	www.vermonthistory.org /arccat/findaid/suffrage.htm (1073 words)

	Downtown Walk
		In 1838, she presented a women's anti-slavery petition with 20,000 signatures to a committee of the state legislature and became the first woman to publicly address the legislature.
		The offices of the Woman's Journal, the newspaper published by the American Woman Suffrage Association and the New England Women's Club, one of the first clubs for women in the country, were in another building on this site.
		When she married Henry Blackwell she became the first married woman to officially keep her maiden name, leading to the late 19th-century coining of the term "a Lucy Stoner" to mean a woman who stood up for her rights.
	www.bwht.org /downtown2.html (640 words)

	THE LIZ LIBRARY PRESENTS: THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE TIMELINE
		The "Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts to the Congregational Churches Under Their Care" is promulgated against women speaking in public against slavery, it is mainly directed against the Grimke sisters.
		Suffrage amendment reaches the U.S. Senate floor, it is defeated two to one.
		Despite 600,000 signatures, a petition for woman suffrage is ignored in New York.
	www.thelizlibrary.org /suffrage/index.html (959 words)

	HIST
		In the early suffrage movement, used the Negro question to argue that white women needed the vote to counteract the effects of fl voging.
		She then starts movement for a separate organization, which she did form in 1913 called the Southern Suffrage Conference and begins to distance self from National because feel that it is insensitive to southern concerns.
		Suffrage types responded that it would be very easy for the states to deprive fl women of the vote in the same way it was depriving fl men in the quiet way that the feds would not notice.
	www.odu.edu /al/enybakke/docs/suffrageoutline.htm (1783 words)

	Women's Suffrage Movement
		This photograph collection includes portraits of individuals, suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out.
		The quest for women's suffrage was a struggle, which plagued America for 72 years, for the simple and inalienable right of representation and equality.
		The woman suffrage movement was a subject for both satire and support by male cartoonists and a source of inspiration for female cartoonists who broke into the profession at the end of the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth.
	www.42explore2.com /suffrage.htm (1312 words)

	Open Collections Program: Women Working: National American Woman Suffrage Association Founded, 1890
		In 1869, the women's suffrage movement split over the 15th Amendment, which granted the vote to fl men, but not to women.
		Woman suffrage in practice, 1913 / by the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.
		American Memory at the Library of Congress has digitized selections from the National American Woman Suffrage collection.
	ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/organizations-nawsa.html (482 words)

	Anna Howard Shaw memorial of the National American woman suffrage association...
		Her successful promotion of the suffrage movement resulted in her election to the presidency of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1904 which office she held till 1915 when she became honorary president.
		Anna Howard Shaw was a great woman and died at the very summit of her career, having accomplished the work she set out to do and leaving behind her hosts of devoted friends and thousands of women who have been moved to finer and higher and more useful lives by her words and her example.
		She was of the suffrage struggle its greatest orator, its wit, its humor, its deathless spirit of triumph.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/parris/WebQuest_files/memshaw.htm (6780 words)

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		However, the growing strength of Alice Paul backfires because she was expelled in 1914 cuz of her practices and formed the Woman's Party which was a political party in the western states (Go into how operate) 1915-1920 Final push.
		Also, antis argued that a vote for woman's suffrage would be a vote for fl female suffrage too and this would undermine the newly re-established white dominance in politics that the Lost Cause said was natural.
		Suffrage types responded that it would be very easy for the states to deprive fl women of the vote in the same way it was depriving fl men in the quiet way that the feds would not notice.
	www.odu.edu /al/enybakke/docs/suffrageoutline.doc (1855 words)

	Chronology of Woman Suffrage Movement Events \| Scholastic.com
		The American Equal Rights Association is formed at the end of the convention, with Lucretia Mott as president, the members pledged to achieve suffrage for both women and Negroes.
		In 1900 it is adopted as the official paper of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the merged suffrage organizations.
		It had twice had woman suffrage by enactment of the territorial legislature and lost it by court decisions.
	content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=4929 (2638 words)

	National American Woman Suffrage Association
		Another group, the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was formed in the same year in Boston.
		What, don't you know that a woman had seven devils in her: and do you suppose a woman is fit to rule the nation?" Seven devils ain't no account; a man had a legion in him.
		To refuse political equality is like robbing the ostracized of all self-respect, of credit in the market place, of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWnawsa.htm (2734 words)

	April 15, 1996 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		She served as president of NAWSA twice, from 1900 to 1904 and again from 1915 to 1920, and her "Winning Plan" of 1916 was the strategy that ultimately led to women's enfranchisement.
		It was formed in 1890 when the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), led by radical leaders Stanton and Anthony, merged with the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by the more conservative Stone, her husband Henry Blackwell and Julia Ward Howe.
		The Blue Book: Woman Suffrage, History, Arguments, and Results, edited by Frances Bjorkman and Annie G. Porritt (1917), and the essay Objections Answered, by Alice Stone Blackwell, were written during this period to provide concise histories of the movement and "arm suffragettes with arguments to combat their critics," said Ms.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9607/suffrage.html (1408 words)

	National American Woman Suffrage Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA), an American women's rights organization, was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890.
		This set it apart from the Equal Rights Association, which had begun to concentrate on Negro suffrage to the exclusion of female suffrage, and prominent suffragist Lucy Stone was not invited to its inaugural meeting due to her association with the ERA.
		The AWSA was less militant than the NWSA, and unlike the NWSA, it did not campaign on other issues such as employer discrimination and easier divorce for women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Woman_Suffrage_Association (408 words)

	Lesson Plans: Women's Suffrage
		The most outspoken opponents of suffrage and feminism in general were often women themselves.
		Not least of the interests opposed to suffrage were elements of the American Catholic Church which opposed feminist efforts to increase women’s independence of men through advocacy of women’s rights to birth control and their rights within marriage.
		Ten years after the reunification of the suffrage organizations Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900.
	www.duke.edu /~sgv3/Teach/teach_womens_suffrage.htm (1114 words)

	Washburne, "Annual Meeting, American Woman Suffrage Assoaciation: Colorado Report," Oct 1876
		In this report to the AWSA, Albina L. Washburn[A] sketched the early history of the Colorado suffrage movement, particularly during the Colorado Constitutional Convention.
		Four sessions were held, an organization effected of the Colorado Woman Suffrage Association, by-laws and Constitution adopted, and the following officers elected: President, Dr. Alida C. Avery[D], of Denver; Recording Secretary, Miss E. Sewall[E], of Denver; Cor.
		On a few hours notice one of the largest halls in the city was filled with intelligent people seeking light on this much abused subject, and the lecture was a plain unvarnished tale of the good that had followed the introduction of women into halls of justice and at the polls in that territory.
	womhist.binghamton.edu /colosuff/doc2.htm (999 words)

	Women's Suffrage
		Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage Virtual National Museum of Women's History with an extensive narrative of the suffrage movement illustrated with images.
		Suffrage Strategy, NAWSA, 1901 Report on the convention of the NAWSA and its attempts to better organize the suffrage campaign.
		National Woman's Party An article on the split from the National American Women's Suffrage Association, led by Alice Paul, emphasizing the history of the Texas branch which was founded in 1916.
	www.casahistoria.net /women's_suffrage.htm (2747 words)

	League of Women Voters of the Cleveland Area
		On February 14, 1920, the National American Woman's Suffrage Association became the League of Women Voters.
		Both the National American Woman's Suffrage Association at the national level and the Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage Association at the local level faced tremendous obstacles in their quest for women's enfranchisement.
		In a formal ceremony in April 1920, held at Cleveland's Hotel Hollenden, the Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage Party of Greater Cleveland was retired and the League of Women Voters of Cleveland was formed.
	www.lwvcef.org /historylwvc.htm (793 words)

	National American Woman Suffrage Association
		The AWSA was more conservative, and was only concerned with obtaining the vote.
		The strategy of the newly formed group was to push for the ratification of enough state suffrage amendments to force Congress to approve a Constitutional amendment.
		Between 1890 and 1896, Wyoming and Utah entered the Union with woman suffrage in their constitutions, and Idaho and Colorado approved it by referenda.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1594.html (564 words)

	CSU Libraries: Women's Suffrage
		This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920.
		Searching for "suffrage" or "voting" alone brings up rights of minorities and others to vote--all legitimate concerns, but these terms without modification bring up a lot of articles that are not related to women's suffrage per se.
		The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from History of Woman Suffrage By Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
	lib.colostate.edu /research/history/suffrage.html (1008 words)

	Women's Suffrage- a path finder
		At that convention, the delegates adopted a platform that called for a broad range of social, economic, legal, and political reforms that would dramatically raise the status of women in American life.
		To the surprise of most of us today, the demand for women's right to vote (called woman suffrage) was the most controversial reform proposed at the convention.
		Millions of women participated in the suffrage movement, these women planned, organized, lectured, wrote, marched, petitioned, lobbied, and paraded.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~tjs522/finalwomen'ssuffrage.html (753 words)

	Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
		They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938.
		The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
		The goal of the Library's National Digital Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/naw/nawshome.html (217 words)

	Educators and Students - Women's Suffrage Party Petition
		Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
		By 1916 almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united behind the goal of a constitutional amendment.
		When New York adopted woman suffrage in 1917 and President Woodrow Wilson changed his position to support an amendment in 1918, the political balance began to shift in favor of the vote for women.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/woman-suffrage/ny-petition.html (158 words)

	Lamson Library
		Victory, How Women Won It; A Centennial Symposium, 1840-1940, By The National American Woman Suffrage Association
		Women’s Suffrage And Party Politics In Britain, 1866-1914
		A History Of Suffrage In The United States
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/subjkey/suffrage (78 words)

	Web Inquiry Projects - Woman's Suffrage
		As a teacher you usually have specific topics that you need to teach, so there are probably going to be boundaries around the types of questions you want your students to ask.
		Suffrage: 1: a vote given in deciding a controverted question or in the choice of a person for an office or trust, 2: the right of voting ;also : the exercise of such right
		Before engaging in research, students will record on their chart everything they Know about women’s rights and the reasons for participating in the Suffrage Movement.
	edweb.sdsu.edu /wip/examples/suffrage/index.htm (632 words)

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