NAWSA

• founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Fought for women’s suffrage
• Wyoming (1869): first state to give women full suffrage
• 1900- some states allowed women to vote in local elections; some allowed women to own/control property after marriage

Susan B. Anthony

• 1853- organized/became president of Women’s New York State Temperance Society
• Voted in election of 1872 illegally

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Prominent role in organizing the Seneca Falls Convention and writing the Declaration of Sentiments
• Both of these focused on attaining women’s suffrage
• Wrote about suffrage in co-published The Revolution, a feminist newspaper that she participated in with Susan B. Anthony
• Traveled all over the country writing and speaking publicly about suffrage for women

Booker T. Washington

• Former slave who said African Americans should get educated and join the workforce and be use force and then segregation will end on its own
• Founded school for educating teachers called Tuskegee Institute
• Helped form the National Negro Business League
• Dedicated to the idea of training and education African Americans on how to be successful in America and integrate themselves into society

Lillian Wald

• created the Women’s Trade Union League to help women organize their own labor unions to bargain for better working conditions and increased wages

Women were shut out of other unions like American Federation of Labor (AFL) due to the leaders thinking that women were taking men’s jobs