Famous+Women+of+the+20's

 = SUFFRAGE =

There were countless women who achieved prominence in history. During the 1920’s, a few women contributed to events such as the Suffrage Movement greatly and achieved significant influences.

__**History **__




 * **Abigail Adams**- among the earliest American feminists
 * 1848- **Elizabeth Cady Stanton** in the Seneca Falls Covention
 * The National American Woman Suffrage Association **(NAWSA)** formed after the international conference of 1888 in Washington DC
 * Famous abolitionists **Frederick Douglass and Henry Blackwell** were among the men who supported women’s rights
 * **Lucy Stone** and husband created the Woman’s Journal, a publication that influenced thousands of Americans
 * **Carrie Chapman Catt** and Nettie Rogers Shuler

﻿  __**Important 1920's Suffragists **__
 * //“Hundreds of women gave the accumulated possibilities of an entire lifetime, thousands gave years of their lives, hundreds of thousands gave constant interest and such aid as they could. It was a continuous, seemingly endless, chain of activity.” //


 * Alice Paul **
 * Born in Moorestown, New Jersey, on Jan. 11, 1885 [[image:AlicePaul.jpg align="right"]]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Came from a Quaker family
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">On the eve of President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Paul led a group of suffragists (almost 80,000!) in a **parade**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1916-> founded the **National Woman’s Party**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Christmas Day 1918-> First of many **“Watchfires of Freedom”** organized by Paul and other women
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Kept fire going in front of the White House or burned speeches to protest
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Paul, along with others, were **taken to jail**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1923-> Proposed the **Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)**, which said that “no right shall be denied or abridged by either the federal or local government on account of sex.”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Failed** to be ratified, even though passed in Congress in 1972

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Carrie Chapman Catt **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Born on Feb. 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Taught and served as principal
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Married and became coeditor of the //Republican// with her husband
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Eventually elected as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association **NAWSA**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Organized the International Woman Suffrage Alliance **(IWSA)**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Famous for her **“Winning Plan”** ->resolutions from each state legislature to Congress; push for referendum or a popular vote in states where there was a chance of getting a constitutional amendment; ask each state to give women whatever suffrage they could; in the South, push for rights to vote in the primary elections
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Also formed the **League of Women Voters** to educate women in governmental practices that is still influential today

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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Many women also achieved fame in other fields that affected society greatly, such as entertainment and sports. Some of them represented the "Ideal Women" of the age who defied tradition and became more free, especially compared to the Victorian era.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Actress, dancer, model <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe) (1930)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Louise Brooks **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Famous flapper <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Represented an image of strong, independent woman
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Bessie Smith** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ one of the nation’s great blues singers. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Songs-> joy and suffering of African Americans <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Her first record in 1923, “Down-Hearted Blues” sold two million records --This “Empress of the Blues” worked with several musical legends, including Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ 1926: age of 19 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ became the first woman to swim the English Channel
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Gertude Ederle **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Women’s tennis <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ winning the singles title at the US Open 7 times and the Wimbledon title 8 times <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ “Little Miss Poker Face”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Helen Wills **

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<span style="color: #620462; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The arts flourished during the 1920's. Men and women contributed to the progress and developed many influential ideas that last to modern day.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Dorothy Parker** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Poet and witty screen writer <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ //The New Yorker// and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ In the Hollywood blacklist for her left-wing views

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Famous Harlem Renaissance writer <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ //Their Eyes Were Watching God// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Worked with some of the most famous African American writers such as Langston Hughs
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Zora Neale Hurston **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Edna St. Vincent Millay** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Feminist and poet <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Third woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Fake name: Nancy Boyd

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Artist <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Challenged modern art styles <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">§ Known for her flower and landscape paintings <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Georgia O’Keeffe **

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