Women's Suffragist Activism Overview PDF

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This document provides an overview of prominent women's suffrage activists, detailing their professions, publications, activism, and religious affiliations. The overview includes activists like Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, illustrating the various avenues and methods employed in the fight for women's rights.

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Okay, here's the information from the images converted into a structured markdown format. # Women's Suffrage Activists | # | SUFFRAGIST | PUBLICATION USED TO AWAKEN THE PUBLIC ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS & SUFFRAGE | PROFESSION | ANCESTRY | RELIGION | ACTIVISM/MOVEMENT SUPPORTED OTHER THAN 19TH AMENDMENT | |---|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 1 | LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT | | Teacher | White - Island of Nuntucket, MA | Quaker | Abolition | | 2 | SOJOURNER TRUTH | | Slave | Afro-American - New Paltz, NY | Unknown | Abolition | | 3 | ABBY KELLY FOSTER | | Teacher, Lecturer | White - Pelham, A | Quaker | Abolition | | 4 | ELIZABETH CADY STANTON | | Teacher, writer | Unknown | | Women's Rights (other than to vote) | | 5 | LUCY STONE | The Woman's Journal - Funded by Lucy stone & Edited By Julia | Teacher | White - MA | Unknown | Abolition | | 6 | JULIA HOWARD HOW | slavery & Women's Rights newspaper-Publisher 2.)The Revolution Magazine-Co-editors Susan, Elizabeth & Parker Pillsburry | Playwright/Editor | White - NYC | Unknown | Women's Rights (other than to vote) | | 7 | SUSAN BROWNELL ANTHONY | | Teacher | White - Western NY | Quaker | Temperance (And later Anti Slavery & Woman's Rights) | | 8 | ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER | | Plain housewife | White - CT | | Fought for women to own property in her State (CT). | | 9 | MARY ANN SHADD CARY | The Provinvial Freeman (For the Black community) | Teacher | Afro American - DE | Unknown | Social condition of the Black community. Fought the Fugitive Slave Act - deportation. | | 10 | MATILDA JOSHLYN GAGE | The Nat'l Citizen & Ballot Box 1878 to 1881. The motto of each issue released was: "The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword". In 1883 She wrote her legacy a book: Woman, Church & State. | Publisher; newspaper Editor | White - Fayetteville, NY | Anti Religion| Abolitionist feelings in childhood; Temperance | | 11 | FRANCES WILLARD | "Wheel Within a Wheel", a best seller encouraging women to hit the road. | Teacher and a Public Speaker | White - IL | Christian | Temperance | | 12 | ANNA HOWARD SHAW | | Methodist Minister/Doctorate in Medicin | White - MI | Methodist| Temperance | | 13 | CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT | The Origin of Species book (that humans could evolve in moral & intellectual ways, becoming higher beings), inspired Carrie. | Principal, Co-editor of her husband publishing; journalit | White - Al | | Women's Rights to vote locally. | | 14 | IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT | The Memphis Free Speech & Headlight. | Publisher & Co-editor | Afro-American & part Native American; Father was white- TN | | Slaves were freed but there was racial descrimination. She fought the ill-treatment to the black.| 15 | MARY CHURCH TERRELL | | | White - NY | | Pioneer of the modern civil rights; Education reform | 16 | LUCY BURNS | | | White - MT | | | | 17 | JEANETTE RANKIN | | Teacher, Social Woker | White - MT | | 18 | ADELINA OTERO-WARREN| A book that argues about women's low status was not a lack of intelligence or ability but due to lack of education: A Vindication of the Rights of Women book. | Socialite | White/Hispanic - Albuquerque, NM | Roman Catholic | | 19 | ALICE PAUL | | Social Worker | Whie - NJ | Quaker| ## **Titles by Suffragist** | # | SUFFRAGIST | TITLE OF THE CHAPTER | CONTEXT OF THE TITLE FROM WHERE IT STATED | |---|---------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1 | LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT | I am no advocate of passivity. | Civil rights battles were not considered as war; she was not againts the beliefs of quakers. Engaging in civil battle was not againts quakerism because it does not mean quietism.| | 2 | SOJOURNER TRUTH | You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. | The audience of angry men who were booing her speech. "Man is between a hawk & a buzzard". | | 3 | ABBY KELLY FOSTER | Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you come up hither. | The statement of Abby Kelly Foster when reminding them of the bravery of the women who paved the way to suffrage. Another quote from Abby: "Harmony? I don't want harmony. I want truth!" | | 4 | ELIZABETH CADY STANTON | The right is ours, have it we must, use it, we will. | The rallying cry of the woman's vote as a movement? | | 5 | LUCY STONE | Leave women, then, to find their sphere. | Men decreed that women belong in the home. Lucy fought for woman's right to take whatever place she chose in society. | | 6 | JULIA HOWARD HOW | Make your protest againts tyranny, meanness, and injustice. | Julia saw the vote as a way to break free of societal injustice. | | 7 | SUSAN BROWNELL ANTHONY | Men, their rights, & nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less. | The title of the chapter is the masthead of the suffrage magazine, The Revolution. | | 8 | ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER | Can anything be plainer than that a woman, being a person is a citizen? | in 1871, urging everyone to agree that the constitution's word of "people" already included the women the right to vote. | | 9 | MARY ANN SHADD CARY | Who shall overrule the voice of a woman? | Mary Ann believed that black women needed to take leadership roles, only then would jobs, education, better living conditions would follow. It all started with a vote. | | 10 | MATILDA JOSHLYN GAGE | The soul must assert its own supremary or die. | Matilda died 2 years before 1900 started. This statement was her call to the next generation to continue the fight. This statement was to guide the the next generation of women to take their rightful place. | | 11 | FRANCES WILLARD | The guns are ballots and the bullets are ideas. | Frances didn't frame suffrage as a right. She saw it as a means to an end, she called "home protection" fight. | | 12 | ANNA HOWARD SHAW | In the people's voice there is a soprano as well as a bass. | Anna's view: democracy demands equality. Much of the credit for the full chorus goes to Anna Howard Shaw. | | 13 | CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT | We women demand an equal voice, we shall accept nothing less. |Carrie's slogan when she promoted world suffrage: We women demand an equal voice, we shall accept nothing less. Women Arise: Demand the Vote! | | 14 | IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT | The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. | Ida was referring to to he racist when she said: Turn the light of truth upon them. | | 15 | MARY CHURCH TERRELL | Lifting as we climb, onward & upward we go. | Women's vote could reform cruel labor practices. | | 16 | LUCY BURNS | 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"? | | 17 | JEANETTE RANKIN | How shall we answer their challenge gentlemen? | Jeanette Rankin challenged the congress about suffrage. | | 18 | ADELINA OTERO-WARREN | We will win. | Nina and the New Mexico suffragists suffered setback after setbacks, until Feb 1920, finally NM voted on the 19th amendment. "We will win", she telegrammed Alice Paul. | 19 | ALICE PAUL | 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. |

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