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THE NAWSA IS FOUNDED
National American Women Suffrage Association(NAWSA), was created in 1890 by the merger of the two major rival women's rights organizations--the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association--after 21 years of independent operation. It was founded to help women gain their rights and it was for women to finially have a voice. -
ALICE PAUL
In 1913, Alice Paul, a young Quaker activist, joined the NAWSA and became a quick leader. Along with Lucy Burns, Paul wanted to shift NAWSA's attention away from winning voting rights for women at the state local levels. Instead, she wanted an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to enfranchise women nationally. Their first activity on NAWSA's behalf was to organize massive national suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., in March 1913. -
WOMEN RIGHTS PARADE
The March 3, 1913, parade was the same day as Presidental Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Bands, floats, and more than 8,000 marchers participated, representing nearly every state and most occupations. Despite promises of police protection, crowds of men mobbed the parade route--some of them threatening or injuring the marching women. The police declined to intervene. People were at how the women protestors had been treated. -
THE CU AND NWP VS. THE GOVERNMENT
The CU and NWP instituted the practice of picketing the White House. Ever day for the next two months, regardless of weather, women marched in a line from CU headquarters to the White House. President Wilson initially tolerated the pickets, waving to them as his car pulled through the gates. The NWP highlighted the government's hypocrisy of supporting democracy aboard while denying it's women citizens the right to vote at home. -
SOME WOMEN ARE ABLE TO VOTE
On this day women who were over the age of 30 could vote in 12 states but had made little progress on a suffrage constitutional amendment. Women have be starting to change their role in American. -
ALL WOMEN GAIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE
The states finally ratified the Nieteeth Amendment on August 26, 1920. That year, women across the counrty voted in teir first national election. The 19th Amendment granted the ballot to American women. This was improtent becasue now that women have won their rights they now have a say in what goes on in the government and can now move on to fighting to gain more important rights. -
THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT PROPOSED
IN 1923, Alice Paul and the National Women's Party proposed the Equal Rights Amendment which stated, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged by the Untied States or by any State on account of sex." The amendment was not and has never been passed. Due to the amendment not being passed it caused some women to be motivated women to gain their rights. -
Now
Now women have stared to take over the government and there may be a female president. Women have been more powerful now then they have ever been in the past. Through their hard work women have allowed women of this generation to be able to do anything and be equal to men.
