17.2 Women in Public Life

Socialists parade Though their objectives sometimes differed from those of middle-class Progressive reformers, socialists also became a more active force in the early twentieth century. Socialist parades on May Day, such as this one in 1910, were meant to express the solidarity of all working people. (Library of Congress) Socialists parade Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS Workmen’s Compensation Maximum hours Minimum wage Muller v. Oregon (1908) – protection for women in workplace Shirtwaist Fire (1911) – catalyst for reform

Photograph from The White Slave Hell In addition to crusading against drunkenness, moral reformers stirred up emotions over accusations that evil men were seducing innocent young women into prostitution--or white slavery, as it was called. In this posed photograph printed in a 1910 antivice publication, The White Slave Hell: or, With Christ at Midnight in the Slums of Chicago, the man supposedly has gotten the woman drunk and is about to lure her into a life of sin. (Collection of Perry R. Duis, from The Saloon) Photograph from The White Slave Hell Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

WOMEN IN THE WORK FORCE (pp.501-2) FARMWOMENDOMESTIC WORKERS INDUSTRIAL WORKERS WHITE- COLLAR WORKERS WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY

Women’s Reform Efforts HIGHER EDUCATION:SOCIAL REFORM:SUFFRAGE:

Suffragettes gather in Downtown Detroit to advocate participation in the League of Women Voters, c. 1920

WOMEN’S THREE PART SUFFRAGE STRATEGY

The Awakening This cartoon, entitled "The Awakening," shows a western woman, draped in a golden robe, bringing the torch of woman suffrage from the western states that had adopted suffrage to enlighten the darkness of the eastern states that had not done so. In the dark eastern states, women eagerly reach toward the light from the west. Yellow had become closely associated with the suffrage movement, and western suffrage advocates often depicted suffrage as a woman in a golden robe. (Library of Congress) The Awakening Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Election Day Critics of the woman-suffrage movement, including this cartoonist, believed that women's place was in the home, not in the public sphere. (Library of Congress) Election Day Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

17.5 Woman Suffrage (pp )

Woman Suffrage In 1910 Women could vote in federal election only in WY, UT, CO, ID Suffragettes began organizing women of all classes Carrie Chapman Catt, national leader of NAWSA (Natl. Amer. Woman Suffrage Assoc.) CATT’s STRATEGY: 1.Highly organized 2.Close ties b/w local, state, and natl. associations 3.Cautious lobbying 4.Lady-like behavior RESULT: Successes in WA, CA, KS, OR, and AZ Failure in MI, OH, and WI

NEW TACTICS: National Woman’s Party Mrs. Carrie C. Catt addressing the Congress of the International Women's Suffrage. 5/29/1923. Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection Preceding the inauguration of Wilson there was a near riot as 5,000 women marched, demanding the vote for women. The march was led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns

Steadfast Effort

Compare and Contrast Alice Paul and Carrie Catt

Nineteenth Amendment: Granting Women Suffrage (1920) Women’s continuous lobbying, and the combined strategies of Catt and Paul, as well as women’s contributions to WWI, finally pay off &txtsearchParamType4&txtsearchParamType=ALL&iLevel=1&txtsearchParamMan=ALL&txtsearchParamVen=ALL&txtFromSearch= fromSearch&btnSearch.x=0&btnSearch.y=0

PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS Eighteenth Amendment (1919) = Prohibition of Alcohol Women’s Christian Temperance Movement, Frances E. Willard “Blue” and “dry” laws