Women’s Suffrage: Moral Advancement or Politics as Usual?
The suffrage movement operated under two very different principles. Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw women’s suffrage as a right that had been unfairly denied to women, while Frederick Douglass saw women’s suffrage as a means to save the country’s soul. Professor Meg Mott considers both of these visions.
Educator Resources
- Yes, Women Could Vote After The 19th Amendment — But Not All Women. Or Men.
National Public Radio, August 26, 2020 - For Stanton, All Women Were Not Created Equal
National Public Radio, July 13, 2011 - The papers of suffragist, reformer, and feminist theorist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Library of Congress - Jane Addams
National Women’s History Museum - Hull House
Virginia Commonwealth University Social Welfare History Project - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Poetry Foundation
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