Woman Suffrage
Mary Garrett Hay, Maud Wood Park, and Carrie Chapman Catt used effective tactics to gain political support for female suffrage. Such tactics had been used by activist men for years to lobby Congress on a variety of issues. Nonetheless, Hay, Park, and Catt used such strategies to change politics as it had never been altered before. They made personal appointments with legislators, handed out questionnaires to see which politicians needed to be targeted most, and used male suffrage supporters to persuade other men. The documents linked to this webpage illustrate how female suffrage activists influenced Senators, Congressmen, and Assemblymen during the final years of struggle to gain national enfranchisement for women. The introductory essay and hotlinked document are the more important pieces in the "Final Victory" project, but be sure to look at a sampling of the other primary source documents in this project as well.
The Final Victory
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/lobby/intro.htm
DOCUMENT 14: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/lobby/doc14.htmTimeline (You do not have to memorize this document. Instead, use it to get a good overview of the female suffrage movement):
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
If you want to know more:
The Library of Congress has a great collection of pictures from the woman suffrage movement:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html