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Carrie Chapman Catt (Ripon, Wisconsin, 9 de enero de 1859–New Rochelle, Nueva York, 9 de marzo de 1947) fue una feminista estadounidense y una de las dirigentes del movimiento por el sufragio femenino en Estados Unidos.
Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; 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.
- Early Life, Education and Activism
- Joining The Suffragist Movement
- A 'Winning' Plan
- Catt on White Supremacy Arguments Against Suffrage
- The 19th Amendment and Legacy
- Sources
Catt was born the middle child of three on January 9, 1859, in Ripon, Wisconsin, and grew up on a farm. She was taught to read by her educated mother and attended a one-room schoolhouse after her family moved to a new farm near Charles City, Iowa, following the Civil War, when Catt was 7. Her parents, Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane, supported reform...
Catt moved back to Iowa in 1887, and joined the Iowa State Suffrage Association where she played a key role in organizing the first suffrage convention in the state and spoke at suffrage conventions and rallies across the nation. She also served as the group’s state organizer from 1890 to 1892. In 1890, Catt married George Catt, a wealthy Iowa busi...
In 1915, Catt resumed her presidency with the NAWSA, a role she held until 1920, and organized the Women’s Peace Party with activist Jane Addams. She revealed her “Winning Plan” campaign during the NAWSA convention in 1916, which called for not only fighting for a woman’s right to vote on the federal level, but also on a state-by-state basis. Catt’...
In 1917, Catt edited a guide for suffrage workersand included arguments often made against suffrage and how to address them. One of the arguments she addressed in the book was a concern among Southern white supremacists that suffrage could weaken the white vote by enfranchising Black women. "White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by wo...
On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was finally ratified, granting women the right to vote and declaring that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” “The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty,” she ...
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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt—an Iowa State University alumna who devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights around the world and international peace—is recognized as one of the key leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement.
Carrie Chapman Catt fue una feminista estadounidense y una de las dirigentes del movimiento por el sufragio femenino en Estados Unidos.
The building is named for Carrie Chapman Catt, an American women's rights activist and founder of the League of Women Voters. She graduated from Iowa State in 1880 at the top of her class. [1]
Honored and praised by countless institutions for her more than half-century of public service, Carrie Chapman Catt died of heart failure at her New Rochelle, New York, home on March 9, 1947. At Woodlawn Cemetery in the north Bronx, New York, she is buried alongside her longtime companion, Mary Garret Hay, a fellow New York state suffragist, with whom she lived for over 20 years.
