Women's History: Suffragists
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
Source: csulb-dspace.calstate.edu
Source: csulb-dspace.calstate.edu
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- With the ratification of the 19th amendment in August, 1920, woman's suffrage was granted to most women in the United States. This marked the culmination of a long organized struggle that began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. For the next seventy two years, women participated in a host of organizations and engaged in a range of activities to gain the right to vote. Some, like the General Federation of Women's Clubs with its three million members, were highly respectable mass organizations comprised mainly of older, married women. Others, like the Women's Political Union, which was modeled after its British counterpart, were more militant and smaller, and its members were generally younger. Although most of the suffrage organizations were composed mainly of White women, African American women also participated in the suffrage struggle, mainly in their own clubs and organizations.
- Field of Interest
- Letters and Diaries
- Content Type
- Oral history
- Format
- Related Web resources
- URL
- https://csulb-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/206609
- Publisher
- California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
- Place Published / Released
- California
- Subject
- Letters and Diaries, History, Politics, Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920, New York Upstate, The Village, New York, Greenwich Village Historic District, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, The Village, NY, Greenwich Village, New York City, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, Everett, WA, New York, New York, NY - Manhattan - Greenwich Village, North America, United States, Washington State
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- New York Upstate, The Village, New York, Greenwich Village Historic District, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, The Village, NY, Greenwich Village, New York City, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos