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These years of the early 1900s also saw the strengthening of the Women's<br />
Suffrage Movement. The movement had begun with the 1848 Seneca Falls<br />
Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, and<br />
the Declaration of Sentiments demanding equal rights for women. The<br />
women's rights campaign during "first-wave feminism" was led by Mott,<br />
Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, and Julia<br />
Ward Howe, among others. By the end of the 19th century only several<br />
states had granted women full voting rights. In the early 1900s, protests<br />
became increasingly common as suffragette Alice Paul led parades<br />
through major cities and picketing of the White House. Paul split from the<br />
large National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), led by<br />
Carrie Chapman Catt, and formed the more militant National Woman's<br />
Party. Suffragists were arrested during protests and taken as political<br />
prisoners. In prison they were tortured and force-fed on hunger strikes led<br />
by Alice Paul. (www.wikipedia.com)
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