The Fight for Full Access to Voting Rights Continues | Carrie Chapman Catt

While the language of the 19th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote for all women, voting didn’t become a reality for some until later. The United States is still facing issues it faced in 1920, including voter suppression in minority and poor communities, racial tensions, questions about immigration and citizenship, and a male dominated political arena.

Carrie Chapman Catt devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights nationwide and around the world, and is recognized as one of the key leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Her political strategies and organizational skills contributed to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920. 

This segment is from Iowa PBS’s documentary Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women which tells the compelling story of the Iowa suffragist and her role in the women’s suffrage movement.