Suffragette City

I'm not talking about the David Bowie song. I'm talking about the right to vote. Specifically women's suffrage in the United States.

In the 1700's women actually LOST the right to vote in every state at that time.

Susan B. Anthony strongly objected to women putting the suffrage movement on the back burner to focus on supporting troops during the Civil War.

In 1872 Susan B. Anthony and 11 other women were arrested for illegally voting in the Presidential Election.

In 1872 Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for President. In 1972 Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman to run for President.

Teddy Roosevelt campaigned as a supporter of women's suffrage.

The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, 100 years after Susan B. Anthony was born.

Go read up on Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Wollstonecraft.