c. 1910 NATIONAL SUFFRAGE SCHOOL / BATON ROUGE - FEB. 22-23-24, Black Printed Orange Silk Ribbon

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  "NATIONAL SUFFRAGE SCHOOL - BATON ROUGE"
  FEBRUARY 22-23-24 - Black Printed Orange Silk Ribbon
  c. 1910 "NATIONAL SUFFRAGE SCHOOL / BATON ROUGE - FEB. 22-23-24" Exceedingly Rare Black Printed Orange Silk Ribbon 1.5" tall x 8.5" long, silk with center split and small defects, Fine.
  Carrie Chapman Catt worked with The Louisiana Woman's Suffrage Movement that was spearheaded in New Orleans by two organizations -- the Portia Club and the Era Club. Although the Portia Club had folded by 1896, the Era Club was thriving particularly after their success with the Drainage, Sewerage and Water Campaign of 1899. The National American Woman Suffrage Association was looking to bring Southern states into the organization and saw the Era Club as an opportunity to initiate Louisiana. Upon recognition as the official state organization for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the Era Club extended their membership to women and men state-wide.
  This exceedingly rare printed Silk Ribbon displays the remarkable creation of a school run for three days in order to teach local Suffrage member activists how to best protest for the Vote and their rights. The 19th Amendment was ultimately ratified by Tennessee on August 18, 1920 and it was enough to establish a woman's right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. This is the first NATIONAL SUFFRAGE SCHOOL we have encountered and offered.
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  The Woman's Suffrage movement is a classic example of how a powerless class of Americans was forced to fight for their own rights against tremendous odds and social inequities, winning concessions and guarantees from those in power without the use of violence. When our nation was founded, the right to vote was firmly established as the cornerstone of its democratic values.
  The Suffrage movement included many American women whose talents and abilities would have made them prime candidates for national office had their opportunities been equal. Women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Frances Willard,
  Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Paul and others proved themselves to be politially important, enormously competent, highly influential and widely respected leaders with few equals among their male contemporaries. However, for almost 150 years of our national existence, the U.S. Constitution was interpreted to deny voting privileges to women, who comprised more than half of the population. Using nonviolence and peaceful demonstration, the Suffragists' goal was not victory over men, but, simply, equality with them.
  New York State exerted an enormous influence on the
  Woman Suffrage movement. Its two primary leaders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony lived there. Anthony's campaign in the 1870s to test the 14th Amendment and Women's Right to Vote largely was carried out in New York.
  
  
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