Warriors for Democracy Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote
University of Central Florida LIFE Program, 2020 Please note: The following slides, shown at LIFE at UCF on Jan. 14, 2020, were planned as visual complements to the speakers’ words rather than a synopsis of the presentation.
Speakers included Linda Chapin, Martha Haynie, Betsy Fulmer (as Susan B. Anthony), and Barbara Chandler (as Sojourner Truth).
For more about the League of Women Voters of Orange County, including our history book, Warriors for Democracy (next slide), how to join our nonpartisan efforts or schedule a presentation, or with questions about our Jan. 14 LIFE presentation, please visit Lwvoc.org or write our History Committee at [email protected]. For information on our book, visit lwvoc.org.
2020: Centennial of Votes for Women
Accomplished! Our story Elizabeth today is not Cady a dusty Stanton historical saga about stuffy, black- clothed women in outmoded bonnets! This story has it all . . .
FASCINATING FACTS: The Woman Suffrage Procession, in 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. It’s a story of passionate, committed, daring women. In many Native American communities, women were powerful figures and held genuine political and military positions. The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1638
She was banned from the Massachusetts Colony for having too strong a voice. “I desire you would remember the ladies. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”
Abigail Adams John Adams
“As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.” The battle for woman suffrage began with another great cause: emancipation. John Adams “As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott World Anti-Slavery Convention, London,Seneca Falls 1840 Convention, 1848 Lucy Stone Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906) Susan B. Anthony, Circa 1855 Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) S u s a n B . A n t h o n y , “The law gives a husband the power to use such a degree of force necessary to make the woman behave and know her place.”
Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court, 1862 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Frederick Douglass
Stanton: “Do you believe the African race is composed entirely of males?”
Douglass: “With us, the matter is a question of life and death.” Statue of Douglass and Anthony
Frederick Douglass
Over the decades, black women continued to press for universal suffrage. Mary Church Terrell Ida B. Wells Josephine Ruffin Angelina Weld Grimke
(niece of abolitionist Angelia Grimke Weld) SojournerSojourner TruthTruth Sojourner Truth
Ad in New York Gazette, 1763, seeking four enslaved men. Statue of Douglass and Anthony
Jim Crow laws vFirtuallyrederick disenfranchised Douglass black citizens in the South, both male and female, until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Marching, picketing, and arrests
“Sentinels of Liberty” picketed the White House. Nov. 15, 1917: “Night of Terror”
Lucy Burns Alice Paul
Harry T. Burn Phoebe Ensminger Burn A Victory Won & Officially Proclaimed: August 26, 1920 Accomplished! Depression and war?
The Great Depression and World War II diverted attention from women’s rights. .
Carrie Chapman Catt (1849-1957) Founder, National League of Women Voters “The League would be a semi-political body. We want political things; we want legislation; we are going to educate for citizenship. We have got to be nonpartisan and all-partisan.”
Carrie Chapman Catt
The Rev. Mary Augusta Safford of Orlando
President, Florida Equal Suffrage League Equal Suffrage Supporters, Orlando LOOKING FOR BETTER IMAGEOrange County League founded 1939, Angebilt Hotel
Issue: Safety of the milk supply Second wave
Championing funds for new schools
Great Oaks Village 4-C Community Coordinated Childcare SCHOOLS?
1951 Actively supported projects: • measures to prevent inflation, • support of the United Nations, • full implementation of 1947 state school act, • study of the proposed juvenile court bill, • revision of the legislative article of state constitution, • reforms in the executive branch of state government, • study of the Orange County budget, • charter study for Orlando, • school building program for Orange County, and • metropolitan-area planning for Orlando and Winter Park.
1885 Constitution In 1963, Beth Johnson of Orlando became the first woman elected to the Florida Senate.
Finally, a new constitution in 1968! Fran Pignone: Champion of the St. John’s River Second wave
Linda Glenda Chapin Hood Second Wave of Feminism, 1960s and 1970s
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pittman-Hughes, 1972 and 2014 Photographed by Dan Wynn Pat Schroeder and credit card
After her election to Congress in 1972, she applied for a credit U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, 1991 card in her own name but was told she had to use her husband’s. Pat Schroeder and credit card
U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, 1991 Schroeder’s memoir also describes how she learned, through a Freedom of Information Act request, that she and her staff had been Pat Schroeder and credit card under surveillance during her first congressional campaign.
Today, 127 women are members of the House (23 percent), and 25 are members of the Senate (25 percent). Record-breaking, but hardly parity. Pat Schroeder and credit card A democracy can only be fully realized when everybody exercises the precious right the suffragists struggled and fought for: the vote. You’re invited!
Join the League, AAWU, and the International Black Women’s Congress in celebrating Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday and our big Centennial year!
February 15, 2 p.m. (details at right)