Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947,) fully Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt, was an American suffragist, reformer, and pacifist. She led the women’s rights movement for more than 25 years. She championed the enactment of the 19th Amendment that conferred women the right to vote.
Born in Ripon, Wisconsin, and educated at Iowa State College, Catt joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association staff in 1890 and later became its president (1900–04, 1915–47.) Catt achieved dramatic changes in the organization and was instrumental in adopting the 19th Amendment (1920,) which secured women’s right to votes.
During World War I, Catt organized the Women’s Peace Party, helped institute the League of Women Voters (1919,) and spent the later years of her life crusading for world peace.
Catt’s works included Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement (1923, written with Nettie Rogers Shuler) and, with others, Why Wars Must Cease (1935.)
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To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.
—Carrie Chapman Catt
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
—Carrie Chapman Catt
Topics: Happiness
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