Transcript Women’s Suffrage Movement

Women’s Suffrage Movement
What does suffrage mean?
sə-frij, Function:noun
Etymology: from Middle English, from AngloFrench, from Medieval Latin suffragium
Definition from Latin: vote, political support,
from suffragari to support with one's vote
Where did Woman Suffrage
begin?
What caused the Women’s
Suffrage Movement to begin?
• Women fighting for
the rights of Black
men and fighting
against slavery in
the Abolitionist
Movement
How could fighting for
temperance help women?
Why did women want the
vote?
Card, “Votes for Women to the Rescue.” Woman’s Journal, 27 April 1912. Courtesy Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton
University Libraries.
Lou Rogers, “Breaking into the Human Race.” Woman’s Journal, 2 December
1911. Courtesy Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton University Libraries.
Mary Ellen Sigsbee, “To the Woman in the Home.”
Lou Rogers, “Woman’s Place Is at Home.” New York Call, 1 May 1912. Courtesy State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Women wanted equality
• To be able to attend
college
• To speak in public
without being
considered indecent
• The right to sign
contracts
• A wive’s property to
remain hers upon
marriage
Fredrikke S. Palmer, “If The Anti Were Large Enough.”
Woman’s Journal 27 November 1915. Courtesy of Ohio
State University Libraries.
They wanted the same rights
entitled to men in the
Constitution.
• Women should be able
to own and inherit
property
• The right to their
children if divorced
• To be able to serve on a
jury
• Equal pay for equal
work
Lou Rogers, “It Makes a Difference Who Says It.” Woman’s Journal, 22 Feb.
1913.
Who were earliest women
leaders for suffrage?
• Lucretia Mott
• Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Where did the women get their ideas for
the Declaration of Sentiments?
• We hold these truths
to be self evident;
that all men are
created equal…
We hold these truths
to be self evident;
that all men and
women are created
equal…
First Suffrage Meeting in
Seneca Falls, New York 1848
Susan B. Anthony
The Critic and Organizer
Born a Quaker
Two other causes she
fought for:
temperance and
abolitionism
Never married
School teacher
Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
Writer and Philosopher
• Married and mother
of 7
• Raised wealthy
• Great mind
• Created arguments
that no man could
dispel for 30 years
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1856. Courtesy Prints and Photographs
Division, Library of Congress.
“You stir the pudding while I
write.”
Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation freed only the
slaves in the South.
• Woman Suffrage
Movement wanted
freedom for all Black
men.
• Women fought for
13th Amendment
• 400,000 signatures
13th Amendment to the
Constitution added in 1865
• Abolishes slavery
Why did women oppose the
14th Amendment to the
Constitution ratified in 1868?
• Guarantees all male adult citizens the
right to vote
15th Amendment
Ratified 1870
• The right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the U.S. or by any state on account
of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
What was the opposition
afraid of?
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. 1920. Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division, Library of
Congress.
Laura Foster, “In the Political Equality Nursery.” Life, 18 April 1912.
“Two of the Fe’he Males.” Lithograph. Currier & Ives. Courtesy New-York Historical Society, N.Y.C..
What were the anti-suffrage
arguments?
Ida S. Proper, “Anti-Suffrage Parade.” Woman’s Journal, 21 September 1912. Courtesy Alice Marshall Collection, Camp Hill, PA.
What was the rebuttal?
Jessie Banks, “Woman’s Place Is in the Home.” Woman Voter, October 1915. Courtesy Periodicals Division Library of Congress.
Katherine Milhous, “Votes for Women.” Postcard c. 1915. Courtesy Alice Marshall
Collection, Camp Hill, PA
Lore Rogers, Suffrage Parade, Washington D.C. Courtesy Susanne MacLean Boone.
How did the Suffragettes
portray the male voter?
Lou Rogers, “He Does the Family Voting” New York Call, 25 October 1911. Courtesy State
Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Why is this cartoon entitled
“Lost Argument”?
Edwina Dumm, “A Lost Argument.” Columbus Daily Monitor, 16
May 1917. Courtesy Edwina Dumm and the Ohio State University
Libraries.
“Not for ourselves alone”
• Elizabeth Cady
Stanton died on
October 6, 1902
• Susan B. Anthony
died on March 13,
1906.
• Over 50 years of
fighting, and 4
states allowed
women to vote at
their deaths.
Dates when states passed
Woman Suffrage
• 1890 Wyoming (1869 in Wyoming Territory)
• 1893 Colorado
• 1896 Utah, Idaho (1870-1887 in Utah
Territory)
• 1910-1918 Washington, California,Oregon,
Kansas, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, New
York, Michigan, South Dakota, Oklahoma
• 1920 19th Amendment to U.S. Constitution
The Nineteenth Amendment
• The right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on
account of sex.
How do the issues of Woman
Suffrage play out today?
How are women’s rights being
taken away in polygamy?
Source
• Sheppard, Alice. Cartooning for
Suffrage. University of New Mexico
Press, 1994.