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Carrie Chapman Catt
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 as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 190…
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culture · American social reformer and suffragist (1859–1947) · journalist · politician · peace activist · women's rights activist · writer · suffragist · feminist · also Carrie Chapman Catt, Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, Carrie Lane, Carrie Clinton Lane, Carrie Chapman, Carrie Lane Chapman
Born 9 January 1859 · Died 12 March 1947 · Q270207
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2026· 4 entries
“an absolute crime against nature.”
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“Now that we have the vote let us remember we are no longer petitioners. We are not wards of the nation, but free and equal citizens. Let us do our part to keep it a true and triumphant democracy.”
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“That men and women are born equally free and independent members of the human race; equally endowed with talents and intelligence, and equally entitled to the free exercise of their individual rights and liberty.”
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2025· 1 entry
PBS: Carrie Chapman Catt
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2023· 2 entries
The Gazette: Iowa schools win Carrie Chapman Catt Award for registering students to vote
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KWQC: 19 Iowa schools to be awarded the Carrie Chapman Catt Award
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2021· 1 entry
Won: Charlestown, IN with Museum, Monuments, and Historical Markers (October 2021).
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2020· 2 entries
The Durango Herald: Karen Kedrowski: Carrie Chapman Catt and the 19th Amendment
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The League of Women Voters comprises a national organization and more than 700 state and local leagues in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong
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2018· 1 entry
Won: recent books, such as Elaine Weiss's The Woman's Hour (2018).
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2016· 1 entry
“Agitation in Amsterdam: The International Dimension of Carrie Chapman Catt's Suffrage Rhetoric.”
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
“Building a Winning Coalition: The Suffrage Fight in New York State.”
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1977· 2 entries
Won: Iowa Welcome Center on Interstate 35 with Museum, Monuments, and Historical Markers (1977).
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Won: Ripon, WI with Museum, Monuments, and Historical Markers (1977).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Iowa Women's Hall of Fame (1975).
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1948· 1 entry
In remembrance of the Seneca Falls Convention, featuring Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott
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1947· 4 entries
Died 1947-03-12.
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Catt died of a heart attack in her home in New Rochelle, New York
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“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”
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“In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”
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1941· 1 entry
Catt received the Chi Omega award at the White House from her longtime friend Eleanor Roosevelt
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1940· 2 entries
A celebration of the feminist movement in the United States
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Catt received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Moravian College for Women, the American Women's Association's "Woman of the Year Award, and the Gold Medal Pioneer Award from the General Federation of Women's Clubs
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1938· 2 entries
Was asked to sign an affidavit in support of leading Hungarian feminists Eugénia Meller and Sarolta Steinberger's request to emigrate to the U
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Catt was a charter member of the Provisional Council Against Anti-Semitism, to protest acts of anti-Semitism in the United States in light of the persecution of Jews in Germany
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1933· 2 entries
Catt received the American Hebrew Medal; in 1935, the Turkish government issued a stamp to honor her work, and in 1936, she was honored by President Franklin Roosevelt at the White House for her peace activism
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In response to Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Catt organized the Protest Committee of Non-Jewish Women Against the Persecution of Jews in Germany
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1932· 2 entries
“Sooner or later the white races must disgorge some of their spoils and give a place to the other races of the world. We stole land – whole continents; we stole it at the point of swords and guns; and we might as well understand that we must not have an acre to a man while they have an inch to a man. We must leave the door open to whatever arrangements we may make for peace in order that justice can be done to all the races on all the continents.”
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Catt resigned as chair of the NCCCW, but kept attending meetings, making speeches and supporting the cause of peace
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1926· 1 entry
Was featured on the cover of Time magazine and, in 1930, she received the Pictorial Review Award for her international disarmament work
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1924· 1 entry
Catt condemned the Ku Klux Klan for their racism, antisemitism, and anti-Catholicism
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1923· 3 entries
Continued to attend its meetings in various parts of the world
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Catt was named one of the "12 Greatest Living American Women" by the League of Women Voters and in 1925, she received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Smith College
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With Nettie Rogers Shuler, she published Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
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1921· 1 entry
Catt became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Wyoming
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1920· 4 entries
At the NAWSA national convention in Chicago to encourage women to use their right to vote
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– six months before the ratification of the 19th Amendment – during the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago, Illinois
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And the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, which was later named International Alliance of Women
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The Miami Herald reported on a meeting by the "Woman Voter's League", where Miss Jefferson Bell who, the Herald reported, "stated that she, too, had been a worshipper at the shrine of Mrs
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1919· 6 entries
And this time it passed by a vote of 304 ayes and 89 nays
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At the NAWSA convention, Catt said: "Let us raise up a League of Women Voters – the name and form of organization to be determined by the voters themselves; a League that shall be non-partisan and non-sectarian in charac
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The women's suffrage amendment lost by one vote
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To pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920"
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“Let us raise up a League of Women Voters – the name and form of organization to be determined by the voters themselves; a League that shall be non-partisan and non-sectarian in character and that shall be consecrated to three chief aims: To use its utmost influence to secure the final enfranchisement of the women of every state in our own Republic and to reach out across the seas in aid of the women”
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Catt supported the "Committee on One Hundred" in New York City, which called upon Congress to enforce the 15th Amendment
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1918· 5 entries
The armistice ending World War I was declared
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And the proposed amendment lost by two votes
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The House voted on the suffrage amendment, which passed by one more vote needed for the required 2/3 majority
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Catt planned to resume the meetings of the IWSA
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When Catt was president, NAWSA lobbied Congress to amend the Hawaii Organic Act to allow the territory to enfranchise women, including Native Hawaiian women
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1917· 4 entries
President Wilson went before Congress to request a declaration of war
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By a vote of 63 to 18, NAWSA – with Catt as its president – offered the women's services to the government of the United States "in the event they should be needed, and in so far as we are authorized, we pledge the loyal
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President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany
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“white supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened by women”
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1916· 1 entry
At the NAWSA convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, she unveiled her "Winning Plan", to "make the Federal Amendment our ultimate aim and work in the States a program of preparedness to win nation-wide suffrage by amend
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1915· 3 entries
More than 3,000 women attended a meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D
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A group of women pacifists in the United States began talking about the need to form an organization to help bring the conflict to an end
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“Why Are Only Women Compelled to Prove Themselves?”
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1913· 1 entry
Was the largest in the history of the organization, with 500 delegates attending
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1911· 1 entry
To arrival in San Francisco on November 4, 1912, Catt spoke and/or organized women's suffrage organizations in South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria and a Kaffir kraal in Maritzburg); up the east coast
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1909· 1 entry
“...our task will not be fulfilled until the women of the whole world have been rescued from those discriminations and injustices which in every land are visited upon them in law and custom.”
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1905· 1 entry
Catt spent much of the following eight years as IWSA president promoting equal-suffrage rights worldwide
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1903· 1 entry
Catt and Anthony were attacked by the press for allowing black membership in NAWSA and, in the case of Anthony, for permitting a letter she had written to be read before an all-black audience in New York City
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1902· 2 entries
Catt called for an international meeting of women that would coincide with the annual convention of NAWSA
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Which eventually incorporated sympathetic associations in 32 nations
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1900· 1 entry
Catt became president of the NAWSA as Susan B
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1895· 1 entry
Won: Louisville, KY with Museum, Monuments, and Historical Markers (1895).
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1890· 3 entries
Which went down in defeat, Catt was asked to coordinate the suffrage campaign in Colorado
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Married George Catt, a wealthy engineer and alumnus of Iowa State University
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In spring 1890, Chapman took the train to Seattle, Washington, where Catt now lived.
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1887· 1 entry
Catt returned to Charles City, where she had grown up, and became involved in the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association
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1886· 1 entry
While she was enroute, Catt learned that her husband died in August 1886.
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1885· 2 entries
A supporter of women's suffrage, he and Lane became engaged and were married at the Lane family home on February 12, 1885.
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In February 1885, Catt married newspaper editor Leo Chapman.
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1883· 1 entry
In March 1883, the month Carrie Lane was promoted to superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa, Leo Chapman purchased and began to publish the weekly Mason City Republican newspaper.
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1880· 1 entry
With a Bachelor of Science degree, the only female in her graduating class
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1877· 1 entry
Enrolled at Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in Ames, Iowa
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1859· 2 entries
Born 1859-01-09.
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In Ripon, Wisconsin, the daughter of Maria Louisa (née Clinton) and Lucius Lane
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