III 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 105 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 9, 2007 
Received and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of a National Suffragists 
Day to promote awareness of the importance of the 
women suffragists who worked for the right of women 
to vote in the United States. 
Whereas one of the first public appeals for women’s suffrage 
came in 1848 when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady 
Stanton called a women’s rights convention in Seneca 
Falls, New York, on July 19, 1848; 
Whereas Sojourner Truth gave her famous speech titled 
‘‘Ain’t I a Woman?’’ at the 1851 Women’s Rights Con-
vention, in Akron, Ohio; 
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Whereas, in 1869, women suffragists formed the National 
Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman 
Suffrage Association, which were national organizations 
designed to work for the right of women to vote; 
Whereas these organizations united in 1890 to form the Na-
tional American Woman Suffrage Association; 
Whereas, in 1872, Susan B. Anthony and a group of women 
voted in the Presidential election, in Rochester, New 
York; 
Whereas Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined for voting 
illegally; 
Whereas at her trial, which attracted nationwide attention, 
Susan B. Anthony made a speech that ended with the 
following slogan: ‘‘Resistance to tyranny is obedience to 
God’’; 
Whereas, on January 25, 1887, the United States Senate 
voted on women’s suffrage for the first time; 
Whereas, during the early 1900s, a new generation of leaders 
joined the women’s suffrage movement, including Carrie 
Chapman Catt, Maud Wood Park, Lucy Burns, Alice 
Paul, and Harriot E. Blatch; 
Whereas women’s suffrage leaders devoted most of their ef-
forts to marches, picketing, and other active forms of 
protest; 
Whereas Alice Paul and others chained themselves to the 
White House fence; 
Whereas women suffragists were often arrested and sent to 
jail, where many of them went on hunger strikes; 
Whereas almost 5,000 people paraded for women’s suffrage 
up Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, DC; 
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Whereas, on August 18, 1920, ratification of the 19th 
amendment to the Constitution was completed, thus 
guaranteeing women in the United States the right to 
vote; 
Whereas July 19th is the anniversary of the first women’s 
rights convention; and 
Whereas designating July 19th as National Suffragists Day 
would raise awareness of the importance of women suf-
fragists who fought for and won the right of women to 
vote in the United States: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress supports the goals and ideals 
of a National Suffragists Day to promote awareness of 
the importance of the women suffragists who worked for 
the right of women to vote in the United States. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 8, 2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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