Suffrage

suf' rij, the right to vote

Carrie Chapman Catt
helped get the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, and then established the League of Women Voters to ensure that women possessed an understanding of public affairs so they could vote intelligently.

Lucy Stone
was inspired to fight for women's rights while still young, when her father told her that women had no need for a formal education. She gave her first speech on women's rights in 1847, and spent much of the rest of her life speaking and writing on behalf of both woman suffrage and abolition.