For Research: "Struggle for Women's Suffrage"

On the path to suffrage for women in the United States, the fighting women faced many hardships. Women's suffrage was first proposed in the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention in July of 1848. Radical movements, such as picketing the White House, were tactics used in attempt to gain suffrage. In 1913, Alice Paul led a women's rights march around the White House on the day of President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Paul did the same thing again on the day of Wilson's second inauguration.  

Women's rights advocates liked to use humor to make their point, as seen in Alice Duer Miller's "Why We Don't Want Men to Vote". This literary work uses humor in addressing the man's concern in politics, a man's place in society, and man's emotional status. 

Just like the abolitionists, women's rights activists simply wanted their specific focus of people to have equal rights as compared to the white men that controlled the country at the time. 

Sources:

Lewis, Jone Johnson. "August 26, 1920: The Day the Suffrage Battle Was Won". <http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/august_26_wed.htm>