National American Woman Suffrage Association

If you see a costume with covered buttons, that means somebody in that shop made them.

Okay, so then this is from another meeting of NASA where we see Carrie again.

And I grabbed this one because it's yellow this time.

So it's like another one of the suffrage colors, but in a pastel and also like absolutely like dripping with lace and embroidery and stuff.

Yeah, exactly.

Yes, yes, it is.

She ends up basically bankrolling Alice's organization because NASA is like, you guys are causing too much trouble.

You are not invited to be part of NASA anymore.

Anna's public life reached beyond the factory.

In eighteen ninety-nine, Grand Rapids hosted the National American Woman Suffrage Association's convention.

Local history records that Anna offered delegates a factory tour and miniature sweepers engraved with the association's name.

Susan B. Anthony and other- know how Anna felt about every part of the suffrage campaign.

Rather than conduct costly campaigns on a state-by-state basis, Paul sought the long-lasting impact of a constitutional amendment which would protect women's voting rights nationwide.

As a member of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, Paul proposed a massive pageant to whip up support and rejuvenate the movement.

Washington authorities initially rejected her plan and then tried to relegate the march to side streets.

But Paul got those decisions overturned and confirmed a parade for the day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.

It was highly physical, dirty mechanical work.

and Victoria just masters it purely out of a desire for autonomy, she straight up steals her father's Ford to attend a clandestine meeting of the National American Women's Suffrage Association.

She drives into town to see Alice Paul, who was a major, highly controversial historical figure in the women's rights movement.

And then Victoria just brings the car back, scrapping the running boards through a narrow gate.

The General Federation of Women’s Clubs.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association.

North America is the cradle of the woman’s rights movement.

It was the War of Independence of the colonies against England, seventeen seventy-four to seventeen eighty-three, that matured the woman’s rights movement.

Woman must make her demands of man.

For that she must be free.

Footnote The organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association is Progress and is published in Warren, Ohio.

There one can also secure Perhaps and Do You Know, two valuable propaganda pamphlets written by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.

Out of that fight came a new organization.

In an address to the National American Women's Suffrage Association convention in St. Louis, Missouri in 1919, the president of the association, Carrie Chapman Catt, proposed the creation of a League of Women Voters to finish the fight and aid in the reconstruction of the nation.

A history written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the League recounted that a key early desire of the organization was to, quote, awaken the electorate to arouse many citizens to participate in government.

Indeed, there are very few voting rights advocacy groups in the United States that have a heritage as rich and proud as the League of Women Voters.

The suffrage movement was extremely fragmented.

There was a first wave of suffrage, exemplified by the women at Seneca Falls, and this metamorphosed into the National American Women's Suffrage Association, or NAWSA.

Most of the leadership of NAWSA was made up of middle- to upper-class women, often involved in other progressive causes, who unfortunately sometimes represented the darker side of the suffrage movement.

Because these upper-class progressives frequently used nativist arguments to make their claims for the right to vote.