Catalysts In The Women's Suffrage Movement

Catalysts in the Women’s Suffrage Movement There were particular women who worked tirelessly throughout their lives to obtain the right for women to vote, and they became some of the most important catalysts involved in the fight for the women’s suffrage from 1848 to 1920. Alice Paul was an American suffragist, women’s rights activist, and the main leader of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment which was ratified in 1920. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were earlier social reformers and women’s rights activists who formed a lifelong partnership with each other in dedication to the suffrage movement. Ida B. Wells was another leading figure of the Women’s Suffrage Movement who took part in many campaigns to raise awareness
ALICE PAUL One woman specifically, Alice Paul, was an engineer of one of the most famous political achievements for women during the twentieth century. Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885, to a Quaker family in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. She was raised to believe in gender equality, and the need to work for the prosperity of society. Alice’s family was relatively wealthy; however, they lived a simple life working on a farm. Alice’s parents educated her on the values of perseverance which later influenced her work in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Paul always gave credit to her farm and family for her life’s dedication to women’s rights (Carol). In 1907, Alice went to Birmingham, England, to study social work at the Woodbrooke Settlement (Women). It was there that Alice met Christabel Pankhurst, a leader of a vigorous faction of suffragists who used visible (and sometimes violent)
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were some of the most well-known women’s rights activists in history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She always presented the desire to be educated; however, woman of her time were never given the opportunity to receive the same level of education as men. She was able to attend Emma Willard’s Academy in 1832 and received the best female education available during her time (Elizabeth). Stanton would visit her cousin, Gerrit Smith, who was involved in many different social reformations, and there she became drawn to the Women’s Rights Movement (Elizabeth). In 1840, Elizabeth attended an Anti-slavery convention in London where she met Lucretia Mott, a leading female abolitionist, and after, Stanton began to study women’s rights (Women). In 1847, Stanton returned to America, and in 1851, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony crossed paths and began their lifelong partnership in the fight for women’s