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Harriot Stanton Blatch
1856–1940
Born into one of America’s best-known reform families, she became a driving force in the fight for women’s voting rights and helped bring new energy to the suffrage movement. Her work connected the earlier generation of women’s rights activists to the mass organizing of the early 20th century.
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Mobilizing Woman-Power
by Harriot Stanton Blatch
About the author
After graduating from Vassar College, she spent many years in England, where she became active in reform circles before returning to the United States in the early 1900s. Once back in New York, she pushed the suffrage movement toward bigger public action and broader alliances, especially with working women.
She founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, later known as the Women’s Political Union, and became known for organizing parades, open-air meetings, and other modern campaign tactics. She also wrote about women’s political and economic power, including in Mobilizing Woman-Power.
The daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she is often remembered as an important bridge between the first generation of American women’s rights leaders and the more visible, large-scale suffrage campaigns that helped win the vote. Her career also reflected a wider interest in labor reform and women’s place in public life.