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Today marks the 100th anniversary of Congress passing the 19th Amendment. You can see this original document on display at @usnatarchives as part of our #RightfullyHers exhibit. But women had been fighting for the right to vote for many decades before 1919. #19thAt100pic.twitter.com/ditsIa2EPL
Women fought long and hard for the franchise—the right to vote—for many reasons. Suffragists argued that the inability to vote meant real economic, political, and social harm to women, their families, and their communities.
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Mary O. Stevens, former #CivilWar #nurse, sent this letter to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Edwin Webb in 1917: "I have given my help to the agitation . . . a good many years. It seems as if the time was come for this great act of justice." #19thAt100 #RightfullyHerspic.twitter.com/pUIIVrg5AV
For working women, the vote meant a voice for safety and security. White women had limited job options, and women of color faced even fewer possibilities. Women were paid less than men for working long hours in unsafe and unsanitary conditions. #19thAt100 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533756 pic.twitter.com/YzkIIBjuCU
“For until the men in the Legislature at Albany represent her as well as bosses and the foremen, she will not get justice; she will not get fair conditions." Clara Lemlich, “The Inside of a Shirtwaist Factory,” 1912 #19thAt100 #RightfullyHers
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In 1879, Emily Barber, a teacher, sent this petition to Congress. She noted that she paid equal taxes with men but had no say in how they were spent, and despite her qualifications, she made only a third of male teachers’ pay at her school. #19thAt100 #RightfullyHerspic.twitter.com/rFND7TaoKP
In 1910, working-class women joined the suffrage movement in significant numbers. They were pivotal in gaining the active support of working-class men and male-dominated trade unions that became crucial to winning women’s enfranchisement. #19thAt100 #RightfullyHerspic.twitter.com/JkQ1GndXSh
The instruction page attached to this 1911 woman suffrage petition from Chicago shows that suffragists adopted labor union tactics to build working-class support for woman suffrage. #19thAt100 #RightfullyHerspic.twitter.com/mxeyOvPkWJ
The struggle for woman suffrage grew into a mass movement supported by women from diverse backgrounds. Editors, elevator operators, housekeepers, accountants, and clerks signed this 1913 petition. #19thAt100 #RightfullyHerspic.twitter.com/3YA8R4fZb4
As labor organizations—like this Connecticut chapter of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers—voiced their desire for a woman suffrage amendment, support in Congress mounted. #19thAt100 #RightfullyHerspic.twitter.com/MswLnTkFpa
Suffragists scored a critical win when they convinced working-class men to vote for adding woman suffrage to New York’s state constitution in 1917. Originally opposed to woman suffrage, NYC’s political machine Tammany Hall backed it that year. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1696624 #19thAt100pic.twitter.com/kmOpgJs6in
This is just a small piece of the whole story! Come learn more about the tactics that women used to win the vote and fight for access even after the #19thAmendment was passed. Our new exhibit #RightfullyHers is open through January 3, 2021. https://www.archives.gov/women
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