Two years after Carrie Chapman Catt was elected as the new president for the NAWSA, Elizabeth Cady Stanton passed away in New York City, NY because of heart failure on October 26th, 1902. Four years later, after being elected, Catt resigned from her presidency to care for her ill husband who died in 1905. This led to Anna Shaw being brought into office in the year of 1904. 2 years after Shaw replacing Catt as president, Susan B. Anthony passed away in her home from pneumonia and heart failure. However, Anna Shaw did contribute to the suffrage movement. Some of her contributions included campaigning in every state where suffrage for women was under consideration; she was one of the most effective speakers during the movement. Many events took place while Shaw was in office such as:

  • 1910: Washington State established woman suffrage. 
  • May 4, 1912: Many women gathered and protested on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
  • 1913: Ladies in Illinois were given the vote in most elections held. (Illinois was the first state East of the Mississippi River to pass a women suffrage law. 
  • 1913: Alice Paul established the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. It was the first union created within the NAWSA.
  • 1914: The Congressional Union separated from the NAWSA.
In 1915, Carrie Chapman Catt was re- elected to the presidency of the NAWSA and led the simultaneous fight for the organization-- this time at both, state and federal level. However, she opposed Alice Paul's views and efforts that held Democrats in office for the failure of women suffrage laws. She also was against the fact that Alice Paul only worked at a federal level in order to ignite  a constitutional amendment. Although she opposed some perspectives, she cherished others. Catt's next target was to focus on promoting the International Suffrage Alliance and equal suffrage rights while she was travelling world-wide. When she returned to the USA, she noticed that President Wilson actually supported the women suffrage act. She took acted upon this right away. Catt met personally with the USA president. Soon after, the 19th Amendment is ratified into the Constitution on August 26, 1920. Catt did not stop right there because the dream of women all over the country had come true. She founded and served as the honorary president of the League of Women Voters until she passed away on March 9, 1947. 

The 19th Amendment:
"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.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."


 THE 19th IS NOW IN ACTION...

 

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