Nineteenth Amendment

“Long” Suffrage Timeline (Reconsidered)

Suffrage


Declaration of Sentiments (1848)

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.


Black Women and Suffrage

Sojourner Truth (1799-1883)

France Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)


End Game

Key Dates

  • 1890 NAWSA merger (National and American Woman Suffrage Association)
  • 1910s  Harriot Stanton Blatch launches new era of more militant feminist organizing in New York
  • 1916 Carrie Chapman Catt unveils NAWSA’s “winning plan” at Atlantic City convention
  • 1917 Alice Paul’s “silent sentinels” arrested outside White House and later tortured at Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse
  • 1920 Nineteenth Amendment ratified

1912 Suffrage Parade (Harriot Stanton Blatch)

Parades

Hunger strike scene from “Iron-Jawed Angels” (2004)

Ratification: Excerpt from PBS American Experience, “The Vote” (2020)