Suffrage Speeches and Media

Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to Congress, Washington, D.C., 1917

Carrie Chapman Catt, The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Presidential Acceptance Speech, 1900

Hester Jeffrey, Eulogy at Susan B. Anthony's Funeral, Rochester, 1906

Susan B. Anthony, to a convention of the Bricklayers’ and Masons’ International Union, held in Rochester, NY, on January 13, 1900

Frederick Douglass, International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., 1888

Fannie Barrier Williams, Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the US since the Emancipation Proclamation, Chicago, 1893

Elizabeth Cady Stanton address at Seneca Falls, 1898

Susan B. Anthony, Declaration of the Rights of the Woman of the U.S. July 4, 1876

Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?

Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio

Susan B. Anthony, On Women’s Right to Vote, Philadelphia, 1872

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Temperance and Women’s Rights, Rochester, N.Y., June 1853

“It is with diffidence that I speak…” Remarks by Rebecca M. Sandford

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

Address of Sarah C. Owen.  Proceedings of the Woman’s Rights Convention, August 2, 1848

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address to the NY Legislature, 1854

The Times that Try Men’s Souls” by Maria Chapman, 1848