Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Cattwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 January 1859
CountryUnited States of America
The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.