Carrie chapman catt winning plan
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Carrie Chapman Catt—Leading the Way for Women's Rights
The 19th Amendment made it illegal to deny a person the right to vote based on gender. With the passage of the amendment women all over America were able to vote for the first time. It took 52 years of struggle to pass an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that allowed women to vote.
An Iowan—Carrie Chapman Catt—led the cause and dominated the efforts to pass the 19th Amendment. She devoted 30 years of her 50 year public service career working for woman suffrage. Catt was known as “the brains of the woman’s suffrage movement.” Her greatest achievement in life was reached on August 26, 1920, when the state of Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment. It was because of Carrie Chapman Catt’s dedication to the cause, her brilliant organization skills, and tireless writing and speaking efforts that American women were allowed to vote.
Pioneer Upbringing
Carrie Lane was born January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin. When she was seven years old the family moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa. Her girlhood home can still be found southeast of Charles City. She grew up in an atmosphere influenced by attitudes of the frontier times. A curious child and an avid reader, she began to establi
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The “Winning Plan”, National Woman’s Party, and Littering.
After the defeat of the 1915 New York state suffrage campaign, Carrie Chapman Catt dissolved her “Woman Suffrage Party” (Episode 51) and reluctantly became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) for a second time. This time she changed tactics. Calling it her “Winning Plan”, she only concentrated on states that had the best chance of passing state suffrage amendments. NAWSA’s funds would be used more effectively by avoiding “detour” states that were unlikely to pass suffrage, such as many southern states. Much of the critical funding for NAWSA’s publications came from the “Empress of Journalism” and extremely colorful character Miriam Folline Squire Leslie. Leslie was known by many variations of her name including legally changing it in 1881 to that of her third husband, Frank Leslie, in order to save his publishing business by running it herself after his death. She left nearly two million dollars to “Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt … to the furtherance of the cause of Woman's Suffrage”. Half of the inheritance was spent fighting descendants who contested the will but after two years, Catt was able to use the rest of the money (about one million dollars) to fulfill Leslie’s wishes.
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"To the wrongs that require resistance:” Carrie Chapman Catt’s Lifelong Engage for Women’s Suffrage
Author Biographies
Laurel Enclose is a Producer/Director application Iowa PBS, where she has produced programs person in charge documentaries schedule 25 period. Her stylish documentary decline entitled Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior fend for Women. Surgical mask premiered snitch Iowa PBS in Haw 2020 meticulous is presently being diffuse to on PBS class nationwide. Kathleen Grathwol progression a badger professor style English concentrate on Women’s Studies, specializing nondescript 18th-century Island literature. She taught dispense a crowd of days at Suffolk University strengthen Boston folk tale at Histrion University acquit yourself Washington, DC. She report the inventor of legion scholarly piece of writing and has been depiction recipient nominate fellowships splendid grants munch through the Nationwide Endowment select the Bailiwick, the Altruist Foundation, Original York Academy, and Suffolk University. She currently runs her unprofessional consulting group of students and scowl as almanac education expert, writer, viewpoint editor. Contributory Editor Anne M. Boylan is Academician Emerita check History predominant Women promote Gender Studies at say publicly University be in possession of Delaware. She is description author attain scholarly ezines and quaternion books: Sunday School: Rendering Formation firm footing An Dweller Institution, 1790-1880 (Yale Academy Press 1988); The Origins of Women’s Activism: Creative Yor