Carrie Chapman Catt Facts
Carrie Chapman Catt Facts
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Carrie's father, Lucius, was initially reluctant to let her attend college and only paid for part of her tuition. She paid for the rest of her expenses by teaching in rural northern Iowa schools. |
Catt's first foray into women's rights activism came during college when she defied a rule of the Crescent Literary Society that prohibited females from speaking: she would later start an all-female debate club. |
George Catt supported Carrie's activism. |
Catt spoke to Congress in 1892 about women's suffrage on behalf of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). |
A rift developed between Catt and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the late 1890s over the direction of the suffrage movement: Catt believed that Stanton's views were too radical. |
She succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the NAWSA, serving two terms in the position - 1900-1904 and 1915-1920. |
Catt was instrumental in organizing the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in 1902 and served as the organization's president from 1904 until 1923. |
The IWSA served as an umbrella organization for suffrage groups in thirty-two countries. |
Know as being politically pragmatic, Catt would tailor her pro-suffrage speeches in southern states to appeal to appeal to pro-segregation attitudes. |
Catt was the 1920 vice presidential candidate on the Commonwealth Land Party ticket. |
She was quite well-traveled in a period before Interstate highways and commercial airlines, having lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, California, and New York among other places. |
Catt was vehemently opposed to the United States' involvement in World War I, but was equally against Germany's National Socialist government of the 1930s and 1940s. |
Carrie was featured on a 1948 postal stamp, along with Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, commemorating the Seneca Falls Convention. |
Carrie Chapman Catt died on March 9, 1947 of a heart attack at her home in New Rochelle, New York. |
Instead of being buried next to her husband George, Carrie was interned next to friend and fellow suffragette Mary Garret Hay. |
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