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They were led by Millicent Fawcett and they thought that peaceful demonstrations were the way forward. They had started a pilgrimage and were travelling around the country, they had started in the south of the country and they worked their way up to Carlisle. They had various other plans of getting the votes for women. The NUWSS were very strategic when it came to came to campaigning because they had to protest and make it sink into people why they wanted to vote, but they also had to think about being peaceful at the same time. Here are just some of the thing the Suffragists did.

The battle for suffrage was a long and slow process. Many women tried to initiate the fight for suffrage, like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. “These were the New Suffragists: women who were better educated, more career-oriented, younger, less apt to be married and more cosmopolitan than their previous generation.” (pg 17) Eventually, in 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified; allowing women to vote, but it was not any one person or event that achieved this great feat. It was the confluence of certain necessary factors, the picketing and parades led by Alice Paul, militaristic suffrage parties and the influence of the media that caused the suffrage amendment to be passed and ratified in 1920. But most importantly, they successfully moved both

Although the war and women's efforts during the war were a significant factor in gaining the vote for women, the campaigning of the suffragist's has been argued to have been of more significance. The National Union of women's suffrage societies or the NUWSS aka the Suffragists was an association composed of mainly middle class women who were well educated and brought up believing in equal rights for women. The reason there were very few working class women in the NUWSS was because they were generally not supported by their husbands as working class men believed that women should remain below them and did not believe in equal rights. The leader of the NUWSS was Millicent Fawcett; a middle class woman, married to a lawyer and was brought up believing in equal rights. Millicent Fawcett and the NUWSS employed peaceful tactics such as holding peaceful protests in the form of marches and wrote newspaper articles in order to campaign for women's rights. There has been much dispute

In the summer of eighteen forty-eight two women Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony who founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association in eighteen sixty-nine met with a small group of people determined to give women a larger sphere of action than the laws and customs of that day allowed (Taylor 13). At this time in our country women were denied the right to vote, made to give their husbands the land and property which they may have control of, plus nearly no say in legal or professional matters. To give you an idea of what the women were up against on July thirtieth, eighteen sixty-eight a group lead by T.H. Mundine wrote a declaration stating that all persons meeting age, residences, and citizenship requirements be deemed qualified electors “without distinction of sex” (Taylor 14). This motion was referred to the state of Texas and in January eighteen sixty-nine, it was rejected on a vote of fifty-two – thirteen. The motion that was shot down was not anything to major by today’s standards. It was a simple bill to allow women to have a more reasonable portion of the burdens of government (Taylor 14). As this example illustrates women had a huge wall to climb of they wanted to be even with men in societies eyes.

Activists from both sides were trying to get people to follow them by showing some arguments that were kind of invalid at some point. As an example, in 1919 a speaker for a French senatorial commission said that the hands of women were not meant to be in a war, or in the choosing of senators or government people, their hands were meant to be kissed.(Doc 12). Thins gentlemen was just trying to put the women like a weak and illiterate human being, which duty in the world was breeding free men. On the other hand people that were in pro of the suffrage used social elements to attract people attention. Showing drunk, lazy, untidy men in such a way that the idea of men at the head of a nation sounded ridiculous and dumb, but in contrast showing the ladies as queens and high class women, with long dresses and hats with a million of feathers, thin and tall, majestic, serious, like a goddess.(Doc 8). Document

World War I also provided women with the means to finally achieve suffrage. Groups such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, enthusiastically joined the war effort, thereby intertwining patriotism and women’s rights. After the House of Representatives passed the women’s suffrage amendment in January 1918, President Wilson told the nation, “We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?” (James and Wells, 67-68). True political equality did not result from the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment—very few female candidates were elected in the 1920s—but, in the words of Allen, “the winning of the suffrage had its effect. It consolidated woman’s position as man’s equal” (96).

To begin with, the American suffragists of the 1900s worked very hard with a variety of strategies to bring attention to their cause. In document 2, a New York Times article from April 29, 1917, described that a publishing company run by suffragists issued fliers, leaflets, posters, and books detailing why women should be able to vote. This article also stated that the publishing company manufactured many common objects, (such as calendars, stationery, and postcards), with the phrase, “Votes for Women” printed on them. Furthermore, in documents 3a and 3b, photographs from the time depict women marching in a parade and picketing outside of buildings with large signs that displayed messages promoting voting rights for women. The propaganda and marches run by women fighting for suffrage were methods used to promote suffrage. Suffragists brought their cause to the forefront of the minds of

This new generation of activists fought with this new agenda for almost 20 years until a few states in the West began to extend the vote to women. The Eastern and Southern states still refused to give in, but this didn’t stop the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In 1916, Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the NAWSA, worked vigorously to get women’s organizations from all over the country together and fight side by side. “One group of activists, led by Alice Paul and her National Woman’s Party, lobbied for full quality for women under the law” (Divine). She used mass marches and hunger strikes as strategies, but she was eventually forced to resign because of her insistence on the use of militant direct-action tactics (Grolier). Finally, during World War 1, women were given more opportunities to work, and were able to show that they were just as deserving as men when it came to the right to vote. On August 18th, 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified, allowing women to vote. This drawn-out and arduous battle opened a new window of opportunity for women all over the country. Significant changes in both social life and job availability began to create what is now referred to as the “new women.”

Women were trying to get the vote for many years before 1900, however this was not a serious concern and they were not doing much to achieve this. However in 1900 this all changed. The NUWSS (Suffragists) and the WSPU (Suffragettes) were set up in the early years of 1900; their goal was to allow women to get the vote. Their reason was that women were already allowed to work on city councils and become doctors, some notable ones too such as Florence Nightingale. The NUWSS believed that if women were house owners and had respectable jobs they should be allowed to vote. This is because men who were allowed to vote could be white slave owners and lunatics so why could these men vote and

use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?"

This Source is an extract from a book written by J Marlow. Marlow argues that the Suffragists were far more effective that the Suffragettes.

The suffragists had mixed feelings about this type of tactic. On one hand they admired the heroism of the suffragettes. This was demonstrated by Millicent Fawcett herself (leader of the suffragists), 'the violence suffered by the suffragettes has been formidable…what those who endures who underwent the hunger strike and the anguish of force feeding can hardly be overestimated. Their courage made a deep impression on the public.' But on the other hand, the violence put off MP's who would otherwise support the cause, and the suffragists feared that all their hard work would be wasted.

were born to be governed and should be kept at home. The view of men

Some issues of 1920s the primary source titled “The Woman Citizen A Study of How News Narratives Adapt to a Changing Social Environment” by Sheila Webb (2012) is the ramification to women’s new role, framing the characteristic in the suffragist movement with themes like motherhood, altruism, equality, profiles of women of accomplishment, pioneers, and success. However, the article doesn't have specific comments, discernment, evaluation to Shelia Webb (2012) analysed perspective regarding the suffragist journal titled The Women Citizen. The article is important because it address the event to women’s role and identity by the effect and affect to social change in the 1920s. The article establish why the suffragist journal titled The Women Citizen is important in social change for the women’s movement like promoting motivations, directions, hope, validation, identity, and inspiration which I feel is important to my final project in developing validation in the events that leaded to women’s right to vote, equity, and other issues. It address the challenges with oppositism that women faced in their roles within society, new technologies, new media outlets, a new concept of citizenship in the economic boom

stereotypes by which a male-dominant society sought to control them. They wanted equality, and the touchstone of this was the vote. Two different groups of British women fought for women suffrage: the suffragists and the suffragettes. The suffragists used believed in peaceful, law abiding protests, while suffragettes used more violent methods to get their view across to the Parliament. Both groups fought for the rights of women tirelessly; even stating at one point that the “Suffrage movement is like a glacier- slow but unstoppable;” determined to eventually reach their goal of equality. However, with the outbreak of the