Woman Suffrage And Politics: The Inner Story Of The Suffrage Movement

by Carrie Chapman Catt

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Genres: Nonfiction, History

504 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 2004

About the author

Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920" and "was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and was on all lists of famous American women".

Catt was born Carrie Clinton Lane in Ripon, Wisconsin, the daughter of Maria Louisa (Clinton) and Lucius Lane. Catt spent her childhood in Charles City, Iowa. She moved to Iowa at the age of seven where she began school. As a child, Catt was interested in science and wanted to become a doctor. After graduating from high school, she enrolled at Iowa State Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in Ames, Iowa.

Reviews

[Carina Shephard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Required reading for Social Movements class. An eye-opening and valuable read for understanding the incredible fight that American women went through in gaining suffrage.

Technically did not read this cover to cover, but read enough of it that I'm counting it as a complete read.

[♱⃓ kate ♱⃓ · Rating 2 out of 5]

this was a read hard read for me.... and reading it for school made it even tougher. it wasn't really hard for me to keep all the women and characters straight and understand what was going on