The Women's Civil Rights Movement

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women.
Lucy Sten, who was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a
college degree.
Susan B. Anthony. She devoted her life to the temperance movement,
(against alcohol) and the abolition cause (against slavery). She fought
for women and black males to have the right to vote. She was arrested when
she attempted to vote in Rochester, New York local elections. We built
the Women's rights movement into a national organization.
Carrie Chapman Latt, was the president of the National American
Woman's Suffrage (NAWSA)
Victoria Woodhill fought for Women's freedom in economy on Wall
Street, in Congress and in the Whitehouse. She was the first of many to
appear before Congress to plead for and demand the rights of American Women.

In 1920 Women earned the right to vote, many of these women did not
survive to see it. It took 70 years to get the vote.
In the "roaring twenties" women emerged flamboyant, defiant, and
independent. Such a young "liberated woman" was known as a ...

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