Women's Suffrage
Women’s struggle for representation started decades before the 1920s with the first documented suffrage activist group appearing around the American Revolution.
· Prior World War One
o Activists groups gaining support and sending out their messages
§ Met by opposition
o Women's Trade Union League of New York
§ an organization of middle- and working-class women dedicated to unionization for working women and to woman suffrage
o 1848
§ First major women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York
o The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
· During WWI activity of Suffragettes slowed
o Helping with the war effort
o Women getting active in companies and organizing support for troops
o Gaining experience
· Result:
o Women know they can hold the same positions as men in the workplace
o Men return from war pushing women out of jobs
o Boom of new suffragettes demanding Women’s right to vote
· August 26, 1920 women gain the right to vote
· Fight for equality still not over