Understanding the crisis by carrie catt time
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Carrie Chapman Catt was a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement, known for her instrumental role in securing the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting American women the right to vote.
Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 to support newly enfranchised women and promote civic engagement.
She was an advocate for international peace and women’s rights, co-founding the International Alliance of Women, which focused on advancing gender equality worldwide.
“This world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators,”
Presidential Address to National American Woman Suffrage Association, February 12, 1902
Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt, a masterful political strategist, suffragist, and peace activist, played a pivotal role in securing the right to vote for American women. As the
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"To the wrongs that need resistance:” Carrie Chapman Catt’s Lifelong kamp for Women’s Suffrage
Author Biographies
Laurel Bower is a Producer/Director for Iowa PBS, where she has produced programs and documentaries for 25 years. Her latest documentary fryst vatten entitled Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women. It premiered on Iowa PBS in May 2020 and is currently being distributed to other PBS stations nationwide. Kathleen Grathwol fryst vatten a former professor of English and Women’s Studies, specializing in 18th-century British literature. She taught for a number of years at Suffolk University in Boston and at Howard University in Washington, DC. She fryst vatten the author of numerous scholarly articles and has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, New York University, and Suffolk University. She currently runs her own consulting company and works as an education consultant, writer, and editor. Contributing Editor Ann
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I have taken for my subject, “The Crisis,” because I believe that a crisis has come in our movement which, if recognized and the opportunity seized with vigor, enthusiasm and will, means the final victory of our great cause in the very near future. I am aware that some suffragists do not share this belief; they see no signs nor symptoms today which were not present yesterday; no manifestations in the year 1916 which differ significantly from those in the year 1910. To them, the movement has been a steady, normal growth from the beginning and must so continue until the end. I can only defend my claim with the plea that it is better to imagine a crisis where none exists than to fail to recognize one when it comes; for a crisis is a culmination of events which calls for new considerations and new decisions. A failure to answer the call may mean an opportunity lost, a possible victory postponed.
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