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Category Archives: Suffrage and Women’s Rights
Clara Lemlich – A Lifetime of Organizing
I recently posted the photo above and a few brief paragraphs about Clara Lemlich on the SSS Facebook page, but I’ve decided that she is worthy of a more detailed post. I first heard of her on the American Experience … Continue reading
Alice Paul – The Final Stretch for Women’s Suffrage
During the second half of the 19th century, the two primary women’s suffrage organizations led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (National Woman Suffrage Association), and Lucy Stone (American Woman Suffrage Association) were working on two different approaches: … Continue reading
Frances Willard – Forgotten Feminist
Often when we think about the temperance movement it’s limited to Prohibition, mobsters, and the roaring twenties. Temperance was an idea that was tried and failed in the sense that it didn’t work well for the country resulting in the … Continue reading
Susan B Anthony – “Failure is Impossible”
“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poor she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet … Continue reading
Lucy Stone (1818 – 1893) – Abolitionist and Suffragist
Common causes often draw people together, but it’s not always sufficient to keep them together. Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony are often called the “triumvirate” of the women’s suffrage movement. All three were ardent abolitionists, and … Continue reading
Mary Ann Shadd Cary – Blazing the Trail for Women
Not very many people accomplish as much as Mary Ann Shadd Cary did in her life, much less blaze a trail to do it. She has many “firsts” to her credit: first black woman publisher in North America, first woman … Continue reading
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Suffragist and Women’s Rights Activist
In many ways, Elizabeth Cady Stanton provided the philosophical bedrock for the women’s movement in the United States. She is known for fighting for women’s suffrage, but she never lost sight of the bigger picture of women’s rights or other … Continue reading
Anti-suffrage Cartoons
Once the suffrage movement got going, it met with fierce resistance in some circles. These women were ridiculed and reviled, portrayed as neglecting their homes, as “unsexed” bitter women, or just simply ridiculous. Here are a few cartoons meant to … Continue reading
Fanny Wright – “or a goose that deserves to be hissed”
“It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in … Continue reading
Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention
“Father what is a Legislature? A representative body elected by people of the state. Are women people? No my son, criminals, lunatics, and women are not people. Do legislators legislate for nothing? Oh no; they are paid a salary. By … Continue reading
