Carrie Chapman Catt: The Women's Rights Movement

The first event of women fighting for their rights occurred July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York and was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton ("The Women 's Rights Movement 1848-1920"). Stanton had no clue what she would start. On August 26th, 1920, the 19th amendment was passed and women had their right to vote. However, it took not only many years to be passed, but many riots, speech, and letters that were directed to the congress. One of the main speeches that played a key role in creating the 19th amendment was written by a woman named Carrie Chapman Catt. Carrie Chapman Catt was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin and was a dedicated worker. When it was time for her to either go to college or go to work her father told her he was not going to pay for her college tuition, yet with her hard work as a teacher she saved enough money to go to Iowa State College.
When she graduated from Iowa State College, she became a principle and slowly worked her way up to become a superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa (“Carrie Chapman Catt”). Life went on and she lived what was considered a “normal” life for a woman during that time period until 1887. In 1887, Catt joined the Iowa’s Woman Suffrage Association. Once she joined the Woman Suffrage Association people started seeing her a leader that can help them earn …show more content…
Even though she was in a new association the NAWSA asked for her assistants. So in 1915 Catt regained her presidency in NAWSA. During this term she created what was known as the “Winning Plan”. The Women 's Rights Movement 1848-1920, states, “[The] “Winning Plan” strategy called for disciplined and relentless efforts to achieve state referenda on the vote, especially in non-Western states”. Catt saw her “Winning Plan” as being the only way to secure women’s right to vote. During her “Winning Plan” was the time she wrote her speech to