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Women and Progressivism

Women and Progressivism. How Women got the Right to Vote. A Message for all Women. This is the story of our Grand- mothers and  Great- grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Never Forget. It was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the

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Women and Progressivism

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  1. Women and Progressivism How Women got the Right to Vote

  2. A Message for all Women This is the story of our Grand- mothers and  Great- grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

  3. Never Forget It was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

  4. Our Heroes The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.  

  5. Lucy Burns They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

  6. Dora Lewis They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and  knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.

  7. By the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of “obstructing sidewalk traffic.” Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

  8. Night of  Terror Nov. 15, 1917 • The warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. • For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food, all of it colorless slop, was infested with worms. When and how did this begin?

  9. New Rights for Women • New opportunities due to industry and technology • Women began to takes jobs outside of the home • Telephone operators, store clerks, typists, teaching and nursing. • Women were expected to quit their jobs when they married.

  10. Women and Progressivism • Progressivism • Reform movements that sought to raise living standards and correct wrongs in American society. • Women's role • Settlement houses • Community centers for immigrants and the poor • Jane Addams and Hull House • Center for new immigrants • Found jobs, offered a kindergarten, nursery, after-school youth clubs, health clinics and citizenship classes

  11. Suffrage for Women • Suffrage – The right to vote • Susan B. Anthony • President of the American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) • Focused on getting a right to vote for women “Words can not describe the indignation…a proud woman feels for her sex in being deprived of the right to vote” • 19th Amendment • Gave the right to vote to all women • Ratified in 1920

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