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Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906
Alice Paul, 1885-1977
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
Lucy Stone, 1818-1893
Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931
Frances E.W. Harper (1825–1911)
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19 Amendment. On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised this right for the first time. For almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting for women’s suffrage: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The leaders of this campaign—women like Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Ida B. Wells—did not always agree with one another, but each was committed to the enfranchisement of all American women.
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