Merion Friends Meeting, a Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

19 in 20

100 Years of Women for Voting Rights

19th in '20

Examining the Nineteenth Amendment in the Year Two Thousand Twenty

October 3, 2020
1-2PM

Zoom: 842 2627 2940

Passcode: 946958

List of Services

1:00 Carrie Chapman Catt in Person!
In an all-ages, engrossing story, Carrie Chapman Catt will tell of her role in passing the 19th amendment, heading the important group NAWSA, founding the League of Women voters, working as a journalist, and more. She will take questions afterwards!

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Local Suffragists Biographies
Learn about local area suffragists from the early 1900s.
Do they remind you of today's social activists?

Local Suffragists
African-American Suffragists
Black women were not always welcomed by white suffragists, their fight for suffrage sometimes joined with white women but was cruelly separate - as their legal suffrage would not be guaranteed until the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

African-American Suffragists

Here are some of the incredible Quaker and Quaker-influenced American suffragists of the 1920s.

Jane Addams

"[M]any women today are failing properly to discharge their duties to their own families and household simply because they fail to see that as society grows more complicated it is necessary that women shall extend her sense of responsibility to many things outside of her home, if only to preserve the home in entirety."
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Harriet Tubman

"Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."
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Lucretia Mott

"Let woman then go on - not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
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Caroline Hallowell Miller

"... the women of culture throughout the country placidly accept the comfortable conditions in which they find themselves. They receive without question the formulated theories of woman's sphere... occasionally an original thinker steps out of the ranks and finds herself after a while with a few followers. They remain but few, however, for it is too much trouble to think."
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Alice Paul

"There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it."
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Carrie Chapman Catt

"In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less."

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Susan B. Anthony

"No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex."
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