Carrie Chapman Catt
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Carrie Chapman Catt 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. Catt served
Catt in 1913
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt's girlhood home with Suffrage Trail Marker visible in Charles City, Iowa. Photo uploaded with permission of the National Nineteenth Amendment Society.
Catt circa 1901
Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt in 1917
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect rec
The Nineteenth Amendment in the National Archives
Text of the small ad that attracted a diverse meeting of both men and women at the first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, during July 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) with Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. New York Daily Graphic, January 16, 1878, p. 501