Eastern Iowa Farmer Fall 2020

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Carrie Chapman Catt grew up on a farm
outside of Charles City, Iowa, where the
dinnertime political discussions spurred her
into a life as an activist and proponent of
suffrage for women.
“Her experience on the farm is
where she became a suffragist.
Her family talked politics.”
— Karen Kedrowski,
Director for the Carrie Chapman Catt Center
for Women and Politics and professor of political science
at Iowa State University.
of the United States against Ulysses S.
Grant in 1872 as a member of the Liberal
Republican Party.
“Carrie watched her father and the
hired hand get ready to go into town to
vote. She asked her mother, ‘Why aren’t
you getting dressed to go to town to
vote for Horace Greely?’” Kedrowski
said, adding that everyone laughed, and
someone explained to the 13-year-old that
women did not have that right.
Chapman Catt became instrumental in
changing that. Iowa was “very much part
of the national conversation,” Kedrowski
said, attracting major names in the suffrage
movements to speak in all corners
of the state.
While women in Iowa did not get the
full right to vote until the 19th Amendment
passed, rural areas were often “the
seats of political progressiveness” here
and in other Midwest states, Kedrowski
said.
The National Grange movement –
which began in 1867 when farmers organized
to fight railroad and grain elevator
monopolies – treated women equal to
men. Iowa had several Grange chapters.
“The grangers were ardent women
suffragists,” Kedrowski said, promoting
things like women’s ownership of farms.
Among the real concerns for rural women
were the ability to own property and other
reforms that would allow them to have
control over their economic destiny.
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