Carrie Chapman Catt girlhood home listed as part of National Votes for Women Trail
A trail marker was officially dedicated during a public ceremony on Friday
Posted: Jul 10, 2021 1:55 AM
Posted By: Alex Jirgens
CHARLES CITY, Iowa - She was a key figure in securing women s right to vote. Decades later, her legacy has been felt across the country and around the world.
Carrie Chapman Catt, who grew up near Charles City, dedicated her life to women s suffrage, and was instrumental in campaigning for the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which ensured the right for women to vote. She also founded the League of Women Voters and the then-International Woman Suffrage Alliance (now the International Alliance of Women). Now, her childhood home has been listed on the National Votes for Women Trail, which commemorates the people, places and events of the suffrage struggle.
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Britain was neither the first country, nor the last, to give women the vote. It was one part of a global movement.
Speaking at a meeting of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Amsterdam in 1908, the US suffrage and feminist campaigner Carrie Chapman Catt called Britain the ‘storm-centre’ of the women’s movement. In 1908, it may have seemed that Britain was at the centre of the suffrage movement, but the UK was not the first country (by any means) to enfranchise women, nor the first country to have a suffrage movement. Britain was but one part of a worldwide campaign.