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League of Women Voters (LWV)
The League of Women's Voters is an organization dedicated to helping women use their right to vote.
It was founded by the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago, on February 14, 1920. They have a chapter in Bergen County. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
The National American Women Suffrage Association was formed in 1890 when the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Suffrage Association (AWSA) merged. They were previously opposing groups due to disagreement over strategy. Elizabeth Casy Stanton became the organization's first president however, Susan B. Anthony primarily led the organization from 1890 to 1892. She continued to lead it on her own until 1900. Her successors were Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw. -
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
The Women's Christian Temperance Union founded in 1874 is an organization dedicated to the Temperance Movement. It became one of the largest and most influential women's groups during this era. The organization focused on labor laws, prison reform, women's suffrage, public health, prostitution, international peace, and domestic violence. The organization began heavily focusing on supporting the 18th Amendment and alcohol prohibition during the early 1900s. The first presidents were Annie Wittenmyer and Frances Willard. -
League of Women Voters, Bergen County
The League of Women's Voters is an organization dedicated to helping women use their right to vote. They have a chapter in Bergen County. -
Women's Political Union of New Jersey, Englewood Branch
The Women's Political Union of New Jersey (WPU) was founded by Mina Van Winkle in 1909. The group tended to be on the more militant side. It was primarily based in Essex.
The Englewood Branch was organized as a separate branch of the Northern Valley Women's Political Union on March 27, 1914. -
Items Gathered to Enthuse the Suffragettes: Notes Telling of the Activity of Aggressive Leaders of the Movement. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Talks at Englewood
Newspaper discussing Anna Howard Shaw's visit to Englewood in December of 1914. She talked before a group that gathered at Englewood Theatre. This meeting was held by the Women's Political Club of Englewood. -
Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919)
Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement, a physician, and an ordained Methodist minister.
Despite opposition to her preaching, she continued for years, receiving a local preacher's license in 1873. She was rejected in 1880 from the Methodist Episcopal Church but was ordained but the Methodist Protestant Church.
Shaw became heavily involved in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and eventually the American Woman Suffrage Movement. She was encouraged by Susan B. Anthony to join the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Shaw helped to merge the American Woman Suffrage Association and the NWSA into the NAWSA. She opposed militant techniques used by fellow NAWSA members during World War I. She was president until her resignation in 1915.
During the war, she was the head of the Women's Committee of the United States Council of National Defense and was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Service Medal.
Shaw had a thirty-year relationship with her lover, Lucy Elmina Anthony, niece of Susan B. Anthony. Lucy was also a women's rights activist and leader. She served as secretary for both Shaw and Susan B. -
Bethune, Mary Jane Mcleod (1875-1955)
Mary Jane Mcleod Bethune was an influential African American educator, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist.
Bethune was born July 10, 1875 in South Carolina. She was the daughter of Samuel and Patsy Mcleod who were previously enslaved.
She married Albertus Bethune in 1899. She also had a son. Her marriage with Albertus ended in 1904. That same year she opened the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls. The school evolved into a college, merging with the Cookman Institute forming the Bethune-Cookman College in 1929.
Bethune was heavily involved in activism, including the Women's Suffrage Movement. She was elected the president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs in 1924 and she was the founding president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1935.
Bethune was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt and was the highest-ranking African-American woman in the United States government when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration in 1936. A position she remained in until 1944.
In 1940 she became the vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was also the only black woman at the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945.