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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.
Aug 28, 2023 · Carrie Chapman Catt fought for equal voting rights as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and founder of the League of Women Voters.
A skilled political strategist, Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt was a suffragist and peace activist who helped secure for American women the right to vote. She directed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and founded the League of Women Voters (1920) to bring women into the political mainstream.
Carrie Chapman Catt, American feminist leader who led the women’s rights movement for more than 25 years, culminating in the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (for women’s suffrage) to the U.S. constitution in 1920. Learn more about Catt’s life and accomplishments in this article.
A skilled political strategist, Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt was a suffragist and peace activist who helped secure for American women the right to vote. She directed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and founded the League of Women Voters (1920) to bring women into the political mainstream.
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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Carrie Chapman Catt was born Carrie Lane on January 9, 1859, near Ripon, Wisconsin. Catt was a key figure in the passing of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting...
Carrie Chapman Catt took her first step as a political activist in 1886 when she joined the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association. She soon served as a delegate to the newly formed National American...
By 1920, the battle was won. Every adult citizen, woman as well as man, enjoyed an equal right to vote. This is the story of one great leader who changed woman suffrage from a reformer's dream and hope into a political reality: Carrie Chapman Catt.
With her husband’s enthusiastic monetary and moral support, Carrie Chapman Catt’s work for women’s suffrage really took off. In 1890, she attended the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s (NAWSA) national convention in Washington, D.C., where she met its president Susan B. Anthony.
