Votes for Women, a popular slogan in the campaign for
women's suffrage in the United States
In the 1700's to early 1800's New Jersey did allow Women the right to vote before the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 19th Amendment, but in 1807 the state restricted the right to vote to "...tax-paying, ...
, was also the title of a January 20, 1901 speech by American author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as
Mark Twain.
In this speech Twain spoke out for women's full enfranchisement in the electoral process and predicted that within 25 years, they would have the right to vote. This proved to be true, the
Women's Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution being passed by the
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...
in 1919 and ratified by all the states in 1920.
This speech was given at the Annual Meeting of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in the
Temple Emanuel.
See also
*
Declaration of Sentiments
The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Sen ...
*
Ain't I a Woman?
"Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), born into slavery in New York State. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker. Her speech was deliver ...
*
Address to the Women of America
On July 10, 1971, at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) in Washington, D.C., NWPC co-founder Gloria Steinem delivered an Address to the Women of America. The speech furthered the ideas of the American Women's Movement, ...
References
External links
Excerpts from Votes for Women
{{Twain
History of women's rights in the United States
Women's suffrage in the United States
Feminism in the United States
1901 in New York City
Works by Mark Twain
1901 speeches
1901 in women's history