Click2History - Women's Rights, Women Ought to Vote - Chapter 6

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>WOMEN'S RIGHTS</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 6 - "WOMEN OUGHT TO VOTE"</font></p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Contemporary placards, cartoons, pictures and editorials demonstrate the obstacles women faced as they struggled for political freedom. And it wasn’t just men who opposed granting women the right to vote. <a target="_blank" href="images/some.gif"><b>Some</b></a> American women thought the whole suffrage movement was foolishness.</p><ul> <li>In the last year of his life, the artist George Yost Coffin gave <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/gw/brumidi.html" target="_blank"><b>Brumidi’s</b></a> famous fresco <i>The <a href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/images/apoth_center.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Apotheosis</b></a> of George Washington</i> (located in the <a target="_blank" href="images/rotunda.jpg"><b>Rotunda</b></a> of the U.S. Capital) a different look when he published (in the January 26, 1896 issue of the <i>Washington Post</i>) a <a target="_blank" href="images/cartoon.jpg"><b>cartoon</b></a>, <i>The Apotheosis of Suffrage</i>, spoofing the women’s movement.</li><br><br> <li>Susan Anthony was often the target of unflattering <a target="_blank" href="images/cartoons.jpg"><b>cartoons</b></a> and <a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/biography/susan_anthony/susan_anthony_ch7.htm" target="_blank"><b>descriptions</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a51000/3a51800/3a51845r.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>Election Day</i></b></a>! - a caricature from 1909 - depicts a mother on her way to the polls, leaving her husband behind to care for the children.</li><br><br> <li>The National Anti-Suffrage Association, in approximately 1911, displayed a <a target="_blank" href="images/sign.jpg"><b>sign</b></a> in the window of its headquarters: "Opposed to Woman Suffrage."</li><br><br> <li>1912: "Men of Ohio! Give the Women a Square Deal. Come in and Learn Why Women <a target="_blank" href="images/ought.jpg"><b>Ought to Vote</b></a>"</li><br><br> <li>Washington, D.C. was the scene of a <a target="_blank" href="images/freedom.march.jpg"><b>freedom march</b></a> on <a target="_blank" href="images/3.13.13.jpg"><b>3/13/13</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Women from the National Women Suffrage Association <a target="_blank" href="images/lobbied.jpg"><b>lobbied</b></a> for voting rights on April 22, 1913.</li><br><br> <li>While some women marched for the cause in New York City (<a target="_blank" href="images/in.1912.jpg"><b>in 1912</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="images/1913.jpg"><b>1913</b></a>), others <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00000/00030r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>learned</b></a> how to be effective speakers.</li><br><br> <li>Women expressed their <a target="_blank" href="images/plea.jpg"><b>plea</b></a> - “Help us to Win the Vote” - in a 1914 placard.</li><br><br> <li>Suffragettes <a target="_blank" href="images/picketed.jpg"><b>picketed</b></a> in front of the White House in February, 1917.</li></ul> <p align="justify">Despite all the years of failure and disappointment, Abigail Adams' prediction (that women would have their say in American politics) would finally become a reality in 1920 - almost 150 years later.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="womens_rights_ch5.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="womens_rights_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="womens_rights_ch7.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>