![]() Catt saw that suffrage at the state level could help strengthen the movement for a Constitutional amendment - and where complete state suffrage could not be enacted, Catt would settle for a partial solution. ![]() After reassuming leadership of NAWSA in 1915, she clashed with the faction led by the far more combative Alice Paul, who wanted to work for a constitutional amendment only at the federal level. ![]() Her relentless campaigning won Woodrow Wilson's respect and support, and ultimately led to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote. Dicker: first wave, Carrie Chapman Catt - president of NAWSA in 1915 and gave " Winning Plan", no children, radical Alice Paul - radical, influenced by suffrage movements in Europe, more radical than Catt, went on hunger strike that resulted in her being force fed A dynamic speaker and tenacious organizer, Carrie Chapman Catt was a powerful force in the women�s suffrage movement. ![]()
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