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Carrie Catt

    Carrie Chapman Catt was a leading American women's suffrage advocate who was instrumental in securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. As president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, she led a campaign that pressured Congress to pass and state legislatures to ratify the amendment, granting American women the right to vote. She became one of the most recognized women in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, known for her strategic leadership and unwavering commitment to achieving equal rights.

    Woman Suffrage and Politics
    • Woman Suffrage and Politics

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Two prominent figures in the struggle to obtain voting rights for women trace the movement from its start in 1848 to the 1922 aftermath of the passage of the 19th Amendment.

      Woman Suffrage and Politics