Carrie Chapman Catt
Description
Carrie Chapman Catt 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 from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904,which was later named 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."
Books
An address to the Congress of the United States
As the president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, Catt took a disorganized suffrage campaign, refocused the campaign on a federal amendment, and led the campaign to victory.
Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment
This collection of essays focuses on the various arguments for and against woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment rather than by individual states. An essay by Henry Wade Rogers provides an interesting counterpoint to another volume in this collection, "Woman's Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment," by Henry St. George Tucker [Section VII, no. 380].
Woman suffrage
Testimony given on January 24, 1880 by delegates to the Woman Suffrage Convention being held in Washington, D.C.
How it feels to be the husband of a suffragette
A humorous and highly entertaining account of suffrage written by a man married to a suffragist who is also a supporter of the woman suffrage movement.
Woman's century calendar
Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, this calendar notes the social, economic, and political advances women made year by year from 1800 through 1899.