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Notable Women in the Suffrage Movement 

Alice Paul

Alice visited London from 1906 to 1909 and became involved in their 

women’s suffrage movement. When she returned to the USA, she 

encouraged gender equality there as well. Paul was first a member 

National American Woman Suffrage Association and was the chair of its 

congressional committee. Due to conflict with NAWSA, she and friend Lucy 

Burns branched off and created what was later known as National 

Woman's Party. Paul and the women of NWP were responsible for raising 

enough awareness to have the 19th Amendment put into action in 1920.

Paul appeared on a United States 

half-ounce $10 gold coin in 2012

Susan B. Anthony 

Susan was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and 

speaker who was the president of the National 

American Woman Suffrage Association. She was 

a dedicated writer and lecturer. Anthony and 

friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton established the 

Women's New York State Temperance Society in 

1852 and the New York State Woman's Rights 

Committee.   She also began working 

as an agent for the American 

Anti-Slavery Society in 1856. 

After her death in 1906, she 

was honored on the dollar 

coin in 1979.

Lucy Stone

Founder of American Equal Rights Association and supporter 

of Woman's National Loyal League, Lucy was a great asset to 

the woman's suffrage movement. She was also elected 

president of New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association after 

helping organize the group. Stone was also an abolitionist, 

finding work with the   American Anti-Slavery Society through 

her college,   becoming the first woman from Massachusetts to 

earn a bachelor's degree.   Stone became an outspoken public 

speaker for anti-slavery and woman's rights. After the Civil 

War, Stone disagreed with former allies, Susan B. Anthony and 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who opposed the 15th Amendment, 

while Stone supported it. Stone's beliefs on the passing of the 

15th Amendment was viewed as a betrayal to the woman's 

movement by Anthony and Stanton. This, however, did not stop 

her. She lived to see the passing of the 15th Amendement, but 

died 30 years before women were able to vote.

Stone was honored on a stamp

in 1968 for her 150's birth

anniversary 

Sojourner Truth

In 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth and was known by her self-

given name hence forth. She is an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist who 

was born into slavery. She escaped to freedom with her baby girl in 1826. In 1844, she joined the 

Northampton Association of Education and Industry and spoke at the first National Women's 

Rights Convention in 1850. One of her most famous speeches was "Ain't I a woman?" at the Ohio 

Women's Rights Convention in 1851. It was later published and she continued to tour Ohio till 

1853. Truth helped with the Civil War, meeting and talking to President Abraham Lincoln about 

her experiences and sharing her beliefs. Truth died nearly 4 decades before women were granted 

the right to vote. 

Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie was a woman's rights activist born on January 9, 

1859. Founder of League of Women Voters, she worked as a 

teacher to raise the money to attend Iowa State College. In 

1880, she graduated with a bachelor's degree and became a 

principle in a high school the next year.

In 1887, she became   involved in Iowa Woman Suffrage 

Association. Carrie took role as president of NAWSA and 

proved to be a worthy successor and leader. She then left 

her post in NAWSA in 1890 and became 

involved in the International Woman

Suffrage Alliance.

In 1915, she returned after some 

members left along side with Alice

 Paul. She assumed presidency,

quickly getting the organization 

back on its feet. After the 

successful passing of the 19th 

Amendment, she again left NAWSA 

and began to help around the 

globe for women to gain the right 

to vote and was active in anti-war

causes in WWII. 

Anna Howard Shaw

Anna was born in England in 1847 and immigrated to the USA 

with her family in 1851. Despite her parents wishes, Anna 

became a licensed preacher in 1871. Her preaching and 

lectures provided her with enough to achieve her dream and 

attended college. After fighting to get there and being the only 

woman in her class, she succeeded by graduating in 1878.  

Shaw became the first female minister ordained by the 

Methodist Protestant Church. While working as a pastor, she 

obtained her M.D. in the medical field, though she never 

pursued a career in medicine. 

With the encouragement of Susan B. Anthony, she decided to 

focus solely on the cause of woman's suffrage in 1888 and 

gave up her work as a pastor. From 1892 to 1904, Shaw 

severed as the vice president of NAWSA and as president from 

1904 to 1915. 

During World War I, Shaw was the head of the Woman's 

Committee of the Council of National Defense. She received 

then Distinguished Service Medal in 1919 for her wartime 

service. After touring and speaking out for world peace, she 

passed away at the age of 72 due to contracting pneumonia. 

her death was a year before the 19th Amendment was passed, 

but was and still is honored for her work, knowing she had a 

great part on making a dream come true. 

Notable Groups in the Suffrage Movement

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