Carrie Chapman Catt

BTW, the founder of the League of Women Voters, Carrie Chapman Catt, used to be Superintendent of Schools in Mason City Iowa, the home of Meredith Wilson, creator of the famed musical The Music Man.

Robert Gibbs and Obama: no more Mr. nice guy 2010

The women's movement was closely linked to the pacifist movement; in fact, Carrie Chapman Catt was a founding member of the Woman's Peace Party.

The New York Public Library: Ninety Years of Women's Suffrage and Counting (Photos) 2010

Through NCJW peace work, she became involved with the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (NCCCW), founded in 1926 by Carrie Chapman Catt.

Fanny Fligelman Brin. 2009

In 1908, during the Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), she met Aletta Jacobs and Carrie Chapman Catt, with both of whom she formed a friendship.

Rosa Manus. 2009

The women who won the vote for us -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone, Matilda J. Gage, Carrie Chapman Catt and others ... their names should fill memorial walls -- may have given their lives, but they did it without literally shedding their or anyone else's blood to do it.

Ellen Snortland: Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter 2009

Carrie Chapman Catt, third president of NAWSA, did not exhibit the anti-Jewish, anti – Old Testament hostility of her predecessors, but she nonetheless alienated some Jewish women with her anti-immigrant rhetoric and the claim that the “ignorant foreign vote” was a grave threat to democracy.

Feminism in the United States. 2009

Jeannette Rankin, the first woman member of Congress and a pacifist who voted against World War I, and suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt were among the keynote speakers at NCJW assemblies.

Peace Movement in the United States. 2009

A collection of the articles Jacobs wrote for the Dutch paper De Telegraaf during the sixteen - month trip she and United States suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt took in l911 – 12 through Africa and Asia.

Aletta Henriette Jacobs. 2009

Carrie Chapman Catt, who regarded her as a pupil, assistant and adopted daughter, remembered her as one of the first to die for “the cause,” ignoring the fact that Rosa Manus had been arrested for her pacifist activities and deported as a Jew.

Rosa Manus. 2009

Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the American suffrage movement and president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, recruited Schwimmer as a speaker and organizer in the campaign for woman suffrage in America.

Rosika Schwimmer. 2009