2.  Declaration of Sentiments, 1848  Movement split, 1869  Fifteenth Amendment, 1870  Minor v. Happersett, 1874

4.  Held first Women’s Rights Convention, 1848  “Brains” of the movement: inspirational writings and speeches  Increasingly radical views (The Woman’s Bible)  Dies in 1902

5.  “ Legs” of the movement  Living symbol of suffrage cause due to ceaseless travel  “Aunt Susan” to many  Dies in 1906

6.  Legislation: Married Women’s Property Acts  Higher Education  WCTU founding, 1874; NACW, 1896  United in one organization/one cause, 1890  Women voting in 4 western states: Wyoming(1869); Utah(1870); Colorado(1893); Idaho(1896).

7. Challenges:  Other compelling issues drawing women away  Arduous state-by-state campaigns  New leaders needed

8. Harriot Stanton Blatch New Leaders New Leaders Alice Stone Blackwell

9. New Leaders New Leaders Carrie Chapman Catt, c. 1900Anna Howard Shaw "Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself."

10.  Movement now international  British Pankhursts spur new assertiveness  4 more western states won 1910-2(WA, CA, KS, OR)  New generation of women unwilling to wait

11. Emmeline PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst

14.  New Organizations  New Tactics

15. Alice Paul ► Quaker from Moorestown NJ ► Early twenties ► Studying in Britain 1908-09

16. ► Alice Paul returns 1910 ► How to use British experience for American suffrage? ► Approaches leaders of NAWSA in 1912

17. Anna Howard Shaw, c. 1910

19. Womanhood & Citizenship: ► Generations ► Strategy ► Tactics

20. Carrie Chapman Catt, c. 1915

22. ► First pickets outside White House in January 1917 ► “Silent Sentinels” with banners ► More controversial after WWI declared in April

25. ► Lucy Burns most often arrested ► Prominent women in jail drew attention ► Nearly 200 eventually imprisoned

27. ► Long sentence drew criticism ► Daily articles about AP condition ► Mental examination ► Pickets continued

28. ► All pickets released before Thanksgiving 1917 ► New York state had won suffrage in meantime ► Wilson declares support for constitutional amendment January 1918; House passes. ► Senate passes June 1919

30. August 26, 1920

31. Themes:  Women moving into public life esp. after 1870  Suffrage part of Progressive reforms  Using publicity to get results  Consumer society: creating posters, small goods to gain support, advertise.  What’s worth going to jail for?

32. ► Create posters, broadsides incorporating favorite images and persuasive techniques ► Examine posters, etc. for symbolic content and connect to suffrage

34. ► Using suffrage songs to sing; create new; examine means of persuasion. ► Examine supporters/non-supporters of suffrage as a window on society pre-WWI. ►Use controversy over picketing to talk about meaning of patriotism.