Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Lucy Stone were early leaders in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States. Women who protested for the right to vote, known as suffragists, were arrested and imprisoned, where some went on hunger strikes and were forcibly fed. It was not until 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment that women were granted the right to vote in the United States, after over half a century of activism and protest by courageous women suffragists.

1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, Lucy Stone
It was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and
vote.

2. Catherine Flanagan, Gertrude Crocker being placed under arrest as they picket with banners before the White House East Gate
These women, innocent and defenseless, were jailed and brutalized for days,
weeks and months for daring to picket the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.

3. Doris Lewis, upon her release from jail, where she participated in hunger strike after arrest at
Lafayette Square meeting. Helena Weed in jail.
When leaders embarked on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment, they
were tied to a chair and force fed, often vomiting. This torture lasted for weeks
until word was smuggled out to the press.

4. Woodrow Wilson’s politicians tried to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice
Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. The doctor
refused. ‘Alice Paul was strong,’ he said, ‘and brave. That didn't make her crazy.’
The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for
insanity.'

5. Casting their votes in newly won right in New York City, 1917, the women
voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a
businesslike way.

6. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Anita Pollitzer, Alice Paul, Florence Boeckel, Mabel Vernon
Women persevered and remained fully engaged until ratification of the 19th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, finally passed August 26, 1920.

7. Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Doris Lewis
Not even a century has past since these women waged battle so that you and I
could go to vote at the polling booth and have our say.

8. What would these women think of the way we use, or don't use, our right to
vote today?

9. These courageous women fought hard for your rights. Nothing, not our busy
schedules or our frustrations about politics should deter us. Get out and vote.