EVERYWHERE TO WIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE USA FROM HAWAII, PUERTO - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
THEY CAME FROM EVERYWHERE TO WIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE USA FROM HAWAII, PUERTO RICO, TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNESOTA, COLORADO, ALABAMA, LOUISIANA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA TO WASHINGTON, DC. Can you
FROM HAWAII, PUERTO RICO, TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNESOTA, COLORADO, ALABAMA, LOUISIANA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA TO WASHINGTON, DC.
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Can you name these suffragists?
1885-1946
Mexican-American journalist, activist, and suffragist
Source: National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) https://www.womenshistory.org/education- resources/biographies/jovita-idar
Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist, suffragist and activist for the rights of women.
1853-1938
1881-1965
Women's suffragist, educator, and politician, New Mexico
1925 Photo Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA)
1876-1938
A Yankton Dakota Sioux of South Dakota, she worked to achieve Suffrage for Native Americans and women. Native Americans were not considered American citizens and therefore could not vote. The federal government granted the right to vote in 1924 to Native Americans, subject to approval of the state in which they resided. It was not until 1962 that full suffrage was granted in every state.
Zitkala-Ša, having grown her hair back out after her stay at the missionary school, and her violin. Photo by Gertrude Kasebier, 1898. Smithsonian Institution.
Chippewa lawyer and suffragist
Educator and an African America
she later moved to Colorado, where she was a leader in the Colorado suffrage movement.
National activist for civil rights and suffrage. She was invited to join AAUW In 1946 which resulted in AAUW revising its bylaws to be inclusive of all women with college degrees.
At the 1949 National Convention in Seattle, AAUW members voted overwhelmingly (2,168 to 65) to revise the bylaws; result:
woman with a college degree from an AAUW-approved university.
requirement for AAUW membership, reaffirming that women college graduates of all races were eligible for membership.
Civil Rights and Voting Rights Activist, Selma, Alabama
1815-1955 American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, and civil rights activist.
1987-1966
Born in Guangzhou, China
Suffragist in New York who mobilized the Chinese community in America to support women’s right to vote.
Civil rights and community activist in San Francisco’s Chinatown, in 1912 she became the first Chinese American woman to cast her vote.
Founded the Hawaiian women’s suffrage movement in 1912.
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Mary Burnet Talbert, Ohio, graduated from Oberlin college, 1866 – 1923, African American Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Boston, African American 1842-1924, publisher, activist, first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, serve on Boston City Council, and serve as municipal judge Alice Dunbar Nelson, New Orleans, 1875-1935, graduated Cornell, poet, journalist, activist, for civil rights, Lesbian, African American Anna Howard Shaw, white, 1847-1919 Pennsylvania, physician, minister, Boston U, School of Medicine 1886 and Theology 1880, joined efforts of Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Burns, often accompanied Alice Paul, tall redhead, fierce, spent more time in prison than any other suffragette, Brookly,n, NY 1879-1966, Matilda Gage, white, Cicero, NY, 1826-98, spent time with Iroquois Indians who inspired her to work for women’s rights, She fought for Native American rights and women as scientists.