1859-1947

Profiles five women who advocated on behalf of women's rights in the early twentieth century. Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaigned for women's rights, Susan B. Anthony voted despite the fact that it was illegal for women, Clementina Black organized a strike at a factory that paid women less than men, Carrie Chapman Catt traveled throughout the world to promote women's suffrage, and Emmeline Pankhurst petitioned for women's right to vote.

Profiles Carrie Chapman Catt, an educator, prohibitionist, and women's rights advocate who was instrumental in the passage of the nineteenth amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Presents a biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the woman's movement to obtain the right to vote, and provides information on her childhood, her fight against the male establishment, and her achievement in helping pass the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.