Influential Women and Women Movements Through U.S. History 1865-1929 (RM)
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Suffrage organization that came to be 6 months after the NWSA. AWSA was founded by Lucy Stone, her husband Henry B. Blackwell and Julia Howe. AWSA pursued suffrage on a state to state basis rather than tie women's suffrage into the 15th amendment. This same year Wyoming territory enacted women's suffrage hoping to draw women out West and soften the edges of the lawless frontier.
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The Hull House was established by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago, home to many immigrants during this industrial period, to educate and improve the lives of the very poor with a focus on women and children's needs. The Hull House also drew influential women such as Julia Lathrop and Florence Kelley who were key to social reform and sociology studies. Kelleyimage:https://www.scupe.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/JaneAddamsHullHouse-ASocialWorkLandmarkInChicago.jpg
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Factory fire that killed 146 workers, mostly women, due to locked doors, lack of egress, and other unsafe conditions. Florence Kelley, general secretary of National Consumers League (founded by Addams in 1899) was able to use this fire as a platform for factory safety, the eight hour work day
image: The New York Herald. "Hundred and Fifty Perish in Factory Fire..." March 26, 1911 -
Julia Lathrop formerly of the Hull House where she worked with Jane Addams documenting and addressing the needs of the living conditions of the poor, went on head The Children's Bureau. The Children's Bureau was organized to protect children's health and welfare. Image: http://cb100.acf.hhs.gov/Cb_ebrochure
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World War I (1914-1918) offered an opportunity for women to enter the workforce. Not only did this fill a void left by the men who had to leave to fight by keeping up supply of goods and supporting their family but it also afforded another argument in the women's fight for suffrage rights. image: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/women-working-100-years-ago_n_6940494.html
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With major suffragist organizations pushing suffrage plus New York adopting women's suffrage in 1916 and Pres. Wilson giving his support in 1917, the 19th Amendment ratified and women gained the constitutional right to vote in 1920. The combined AWSA/NWSA (NAWSA) ceases to exist (suffrage organizations led by E. Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone, H.B. Blackwell, Julia Howe respectively) and becomes League of Women Voters. image: http://www.britannica.com/topic/woman-suffrage
