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• Study notes about the Suffragists

Lucretia Coffin Mott

• Lucretia Coffin Mott was a teacher
• She was White, from Island of Nuntucket, MA
• Mott was a Quaker
• Advocated for abolition
• Said: "I am no advocate of passivity."
• This means that civil rights battles were not considered as war. She was not against the beliefs of quakers because engaging in civil battle was not against quakerism because it does not mean quietism.

Sojourner Truth

• Sojourner Truth was enslaved but spoke Dutch and English
• She learned from her parents stories of family history and the Bible
• She was Afro-American, from New Paltz, NY
• She advocated for abolition
• Said to an audience of angry men who were booing her speech: "You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway."
• Further stated that ""Man is between a hawk & a buzzard"

Abby Kelly Foster

• Abby Kelly Foster was a teacher and lecturer
• She was White, from Pelham, A
• Foster was a Quaker
• Advocated for abolition
• Said: "Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you come up hither."
• This statement reminds people of the bravery of the women who paved the way to suffrage
• Also said: "Harmony? I don't want harmony. I want truth!"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a teacher and writer
• Advocated for general women's rights besides just the right to vote
• Said: "The right is ours, have it we must, use it, we will."
• This was a rallying cry of the woman's vote as a movement

Lucy Stone

• Lucy Stone was a teacher
• She was White, from MA
• Advocated for abolition
• Funded "The Woman's Journal" newspaper and it was edited by Julia
• Said: "Leave women, then, to find their sphere."
• Indicates that men decreed that women belong in the home and Lucy fought for woman's right to take whatever place she chose in society

Julia Howard Howe

• Julia Howard Howe was a playwright and editor
• She was White, from NYC
• Advocated for general women's rights besides just the right to vote
• Said: "Make your protest against tyranny, meanness, and injustice."
• Saw the vote as a way to break free of societal injustice

Susan Brownell Anthony

• Susan Brownell Anthony was a teacher
• She was White, from Western NY
• Anthony was a Quaker
• Advocated for temperance, anti-slavery and general women's rights
• Co-edited newspaper for slavery and women's rights "The Revolution Magazine" with Susan, Elizabeth & Parker Pillsburry
• Said: "Men, their rights, & nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less."
• This was the title of the chapter and masthead of the suffrage magazine, The Revolution

Isabella Beecher Hooker

• Isabella Beecher Hooker was a plain Housewife
• She was White, from CT
• Fought for women to own property in her State Spiritualism (CT).
• In 1871, She urged everyone to agree that the constitution's word of "people" already included the women the right to vote, and said: "Can anything be plainer than that a woman, being a person is a citizen?"

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

• Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a teacher
• She was Afro-American, from DE
• She addressed the social condition of the Black community and fought the Fugitive Slave Act - deportation
• Newspaper - The Provinvial Freeman (For the Black community)
• Believed that black women needed to take leadership roles, only then would jobs, education, better living conditions would follow
• "Who shall overrule the voice of a woman?"

Matilda Joslyn Gage

• Matilda Joslyn Gage was a publisher and newspaper editor
• She was White, from Fayetteville, NY
• Wrote "Woman, Church & State" in 1883 a legacy a book
• Had Abolitionist feelings in childhood and advocated temperance and anti-religion
• "The Nat'l Citizen & Ballot Box" 1878 to 1881; the motto of each issue released was: "The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword"
• She stated, "The soul must assert its own supremary or die."
• This was her call to the next generation to continue the fight

Frances Willard

• Frances Willard was a teacher and public speaker
• She was White, from IL
• She was a Christian
• Advocated for temperance
• Wrote "Wheel Within a Wheel", a best seller encouraging women to hit the road
• She stated "The guns are ballots and the bullets are ideas."
• She did not frame suffrage as a right, but rather as a means to an end, she called "home protection" fight.

Anna Howard Shaw

• Anna Howard Shaw was a Methodist Minister and Doctorate in Medicine
• She was White, from MI
• She was a Methodist
• Advocated for temperance
• Stated, "In the people's voice there is a soprano as well as a bass."
• Anna's view was that democracy demands equality and much of the credit for the full chorus should go to Anna Howard Shaw

Carrie Chapman Catt

• Carrie Chapman Catt was a Principal and co-editor of her husband publishing
• She was White, from Al
• Promoted women's rights to vote locally
• Her work was inspired by the book: The Origin of Species book (that humans could evolve in moral & intellectual ways, becoming higher beings)
• Stated, "We women demand an equal voice, we shall accept nothing less."
• Carrie's slogan when she promoted world suffrage: "Women Arise: Demand the Vote!"

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a Publisher and Co-editor
• She was Afro-American & part Native American; Father was white, from TN
• Fought the ill treatment to the black and for pioneer of the modern civil rights and Education reform
• Published "The Memphis Free Speech & Headlight"
• Stated, "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
• Ida was referring to to the racist when she said: Turn the light of truth upon them

Mary Church Terrell

• Mary Church Terrell
• Stated, "Lifting as we climb, onward & upward we go."
• Wanted women's vote to reform cruel labor practices.

Lucy Burns

• Lucy Burns
• Stated, "Mr. president, what will you do for woman suffrage?"
• Lucy and 9 others attended Wilson's annual address to Congress with a banner, "What will you do to woman's suffrage"?

Jeanette Rankin

• Jeanette Rankin was a Teacher and Social Worker
• She was White, from MT
• Stated "How shall we answer their challenge gentlemen?"
• Jeanette Rankin challenged the congress about suffrage.

Adelina Otero-Warren

• Adelina Otero-Warren was a Socialite
• She was White/Hispanic, from Albuquerque, NM
• She was Roman Catholic
• Stated "We will win."
• Nina and the New Mexico suffragists suffered setback after setbacks, until Feb 1920, finally NM voted on the 19th amendment

Alice Paul

• Alice Paul was a Social Worker
• She was White from NJ
• She was a Quaker
• Stated "Votes for women."
• Success would have been delayed for many years to come, had it not been for Alice Paul and Lucy Burns' militant activism