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=Woman's Suffrage=

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Woman's Suffrage is the right for women to vote and to run for office. The suffrage movement was very broad. One major division was between suffragists, who created change constitutionally, and suffragettes who was led by Emmeline Pankhurst, who in 1903 formed the Woman's Social and Political Union. Lydia Chapin Taft was an early forerunner in colonial america who was allowed to vote in three New England town meetings. After the American Revolution, women were allowed to vote in new jersey, but no other state from 1790 until 1807. In June 1848, Gerrit Smith made womans suffrage a plank in The Liberty Platform. In july, at the Senecca Falls Convention in Upstate New York, activist like Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Lucretia Mott began a seventy year struggle by woman to secure the right to vote.=====

Carrie Chapman Cat was a Woman's Suffrage Leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S women to the right to vote in 1920.

Ida B. Wells Was an African American Journalists newspaper editor. She documented lynching in the United States. She was active in the woman's rights and the woman's suffrage movement.

Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American Civil Rights leader who played a role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce woman's suffrage into the united states. She also co founded the woman's rights journal "The Revolution"

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British Suffragette movement which helped woman win the right to vote.

Lucretia Mott Was an American Quaker Abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights.

The National American Woman's Suffrage (NAWSA) was an American Women's Rights organization formed in may 1890. The NAWSA was the largest and most important suffrage organization in the united states, and was the promoter of woman's right to vote. The National Association Of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC) was created in Washington DC, and smaller organization that had arisen from the African American women's club movement. The Founders of the NACWC included Harriet Tubman, Margaret Murry Washington, Frances E.W Harper, Ida B. Wells, and Marry Church Terrell.