Anna Howard Shaw Quotes
We have waited long enough to get the vote. We want it now!
Woodrow Wilson had just finished speaking to the convention – see {638532}. This statement was thought be some to be insulting to the President who said he favored the right of women to vote, but did very little if anything to make that happen. Although Shaw was an ordained Methodist Minister, the Methodist Episcopal Church refused to allow her to preach because of her suffrage views.
Anna Howard Shaw, 1847–1919, Methodist Minister, Physician & Social Reformer, President, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Statement to President Woodrow Wilson, Women’s Suffrage Convention, Atlantic City, NJ, September 8, 1916
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Although warmly greeted, he was pressed for immediate action. see {638533}.
To support the war effort, the most militant suffragettes ceased anti Government militancy. The suffragette movement was split by WWI and the issue of pacifism. See {621266} for the anti-war factional view.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
The editorial was in support of women’s suffrage—the right to vote which at the time women did not have in Britain. Women were very active in protests and demonstrations. Tactics sometimes involved civil disobedience and chaining themselves to public buildings. It was the civil disobedience and disruptions that the newspaper referred to as the “follies and excesses.” In retrospect today, it is amazing how threatened the society felt and how they reacted to the “threat” of females voting. It does however give us a perspective on those contemporary societies which restrict women’s voting rights.
- Born: February 14, 1847
- Died: July 2, 1919
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Women's Suffrage Temperance Movement Activist, Minister Physician
Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States.
