Carrie Chapman Catt portrayed by
Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and helped lead the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Mrs. Catt was the women's rights dynamo who succeeded Susan B. Anthony as head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was featured on the cover of Time, inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and received the American Hebrew Medal. In 2016 a statue was dedicated to her and other suffragists in Nashville, TN —the state that cast the deciding vote for the 19th Amendment. The year 2020 is the Centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Audiences will learn of Carrie’s sense of justice and her will to create change while they experience the sense of humor that contributed to her reputation as a public speaker and popular leader. She never feared defeat and didn’t hesitate to speak out for equality and justice. Her leadership of the woman suffrage mainstream organization will inspire modern audiences just as she inspired its two million members in a steady fight that took 72 years to accomplish.
“As suffragists, we believe that the vote will do women good and women will do politics good…and with the broad application of democracy that knows no bias on the ground of race, color, creed or sex, Americans may stand united, not as Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Negro-Americans, Slav-Americans and “The Women,” but, one and all, as Americans for America.” Carrie Chapman Catt for "The Crisis" magazine - October 31, 1918
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Moments from a live performance by Pat Jordan as Carrie Chapman Catt