Womans Suffrage

The NAWSA was formed in 1890 with the union of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The NAWSA separated the traditional association of woman’s rights with the rights of blacks in order to gain support in the South without much success. Carrie Chapman Catt gained the presidency of the NAWSA in 1900, and attempted to appear more conservative by developing “the society plan” which tried to recruit college

Alice Paul started the National Woman’s Party (NWP), after returning from working on woman’s suffrage in Britain. The NWP was a much more radical group compared to the NAWSA. Paul did not have the patients to fight a state-to-state battle for suffrage like the NAWSA. Paul want directly to Washington DC in order to get a federal amendment. The NWP protested in front of the white house and strongly campaigned against the Democrats and President Woodrow Wilson for refusing to endorse woman’s suffrage. The NWP was against American involvement in World War I and often called the president Kaiser Wilson. Paul and members of the NWP where jailed and want on hunger strikes in protest. The police force feed and abused the woman in order to break their spirit but they would not be silenced.

Finally in 1918 pressure from both the NAWSA and NWP made President Wilson change his view and started working on a federal amendment, w

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