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Women's Suffrage Museum Events & Cultural Center

Mission statement for Suffrage Coalition Inc.’s Project: Women’s Suffrage Museum – Events & Culture Center - Locate and preserve the epic history of the movement that brought democracy to the other half of our citizens. Use accurate, immersive storytelling to inspire future generations to value their rights and faithfully perform their duties as citizens.

Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) England

Anna Howard Shaw
  • Emigrated to United States at age four.
  • Speaking at 1919 National Conference on lynching, argued that women’s suffrage was step against lynching.
  • First woman to earn Distinguished Service Medal for her service as head of the Women’s Committee of the United States Council of National Defense.
  • Shaw played a key role when the two suffrage associations (American Woman Suffrage Association and National Woman Suffrage Association) merged. Shaw became the president of National American Woman Suffrage Association.
  • Under her leadership, National American Woman Suffrage Association continued to the campaign for a national constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.
  • Shaw was a medical doctor who was also ordained as the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church in the United States.

Quotes:

"I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it."

 

"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women."