WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
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The NWSA worked tirelessly for women's right to vote. Founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The AWSA also emerge and the two merged to NAWSA
Led by Alice Paul, the public parade of 1913 raised general awareness and therefore advanced the women's suffrage movement.
Although African-American women were asked to march at the end because white suffragists were afraid of media attention, Ida B. Wells advocated and led their march into the middle. Then, suffragists are attacked by mobs and end into a riot.
Women fighters, often called "Silent Sentinels", holding historical NWSA banner, taking a stand with President Wilson by picketing around the White House. This passive form of protests were unnoticeable at first, but ultimately gained attention when protesters were jailed and treated unfairly.
Many protesters are arrested on basis of “obstructing traffic” and because of the unwillingness to pay fines, they are jailed. Paul and others are subsequently jailed, and Paul is locked in solitary confinement as the group goes on a hunger strike. When suffragists gain empathy from the public and are called “iron jawed angels” by an opposing Representative male.
In 1920, one more state is needed for ratification of the amendment, and a worried mother telegrams his legislator son to “be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the ‘rat’ in ratification”. By August the same year, millions of American women are granted the right to vote in elections.
Despite women of today enjoying the same basic rights of men - voting, women are still lacking the same gender equality guaranteed in the 19th amendment.