League of Women Voters Founded
The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago on this day to encourage women to vote and to provide information about candidates.
Women’s suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League as a successor to the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the largest and most moderate suffrage group in the country.
Six months later, the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was ratified, on August 18, 1920, and women voted for the first time in national elections on November 2, 1920. The League of Women Voters is still active today.
Visit the LWV website: http://www.lwv.org/
Learn more about the history of women’s suffrage, from the 19th Century to the present: Ellen Carol DuBois, Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote (2020)
Learn about the history of the League of Women Voters here
Read: Percy Maxim Lee; Louise Merwin Young; Ralph B. Young, In the Public Interest: The League of Women Voters, 1920-1970 (1989)