How Women Got the Vote: The Story of the Women's Suffrage

How Women Got the Vote: The Story of the Women's Suffrage Movement in America (Annotated)

Originally published in Encyclopedia Americana in 1920, this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 24 pages, tells the story of the womenâ€™s suffrage movement in American, which led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920), which guaranteed all American women the right to vote.

Includes supplemental material:

â€¢ The Womenâ€™s Suffrage Movement in Brief
â€¢ About Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony

Sample passage:
The Society of Friends, or Quakers, had divided on the slavery question and, as this sect had always recognized equality of rights, their women especially resented the discriminations that were being made. In 1848 during the yearly meeting of the liberal branch in Waterloo, New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton went over from her home in the neighboring village of Seneca Falls to be with Lucretia Mott at the home of a mutual friend, Mary Ann McClintock. Mrs. Mottâ€™s sister, Martha C. Wright, came from Auburn. The four women talked over the situation and Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Stanton decided to put into effect the resolution they had made in London eight years before to call a convention for a public discussion of the rights of women. So here in the McClintock home on a Sunday morning in June these four issued a â€œCallâ€ for the first womanâ€™s rights convention in all history and published it, unsigned, in a local paper. They then prepared a declaration of rights modeled after the Declaration of Independence and a set of resolutions that demanded practically every right that women are enjoying at the present day, including suffrage. The convention met in Seneca Falls, July 19â€“20, in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and James Mott, of Philadelphia, the husband of Lucretia, and one of the most prominent Friends in the country, presided. As many as the church would hold were present; the declaration and resolutions were discussed and adopted, and here began the movement for woman suffrage, which then continued without cessation.

About the author:
Ida Husted Harper (1851-1931), an author and journalist, was a prominent figure in the womenâ€™s suffrage movement in America. Other works include â€œThe Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony,â€ â€œWoman Suffrage Throughout the World,â€ and â€œStory of the National Amendment for Woman Suffrage.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer A. J. Cornell Publications
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-02-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	A. J. Cornell Publications
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-02-13
Format	Kindle eBook

How Women Got the Vote: The Story of the Women's Suffrage Movement in America (Annotated)

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