page_title: Caroline Katzenstein
section_title: The "Suffrage Special"
hierarchical_section_title: Caroline Katzenstein / Activism / The "Suffrage Special"
caption_attribution_description: English: "Suffrage Special": Arrival of the "Flying Squadron" at Colorado Springs, Colorado.
context_page_description: Caroline Katzenstein was an American suffragist, activist, advocate for equal rights, insurance agent, and author. She was active in the local Philadelphia suffragist movement through the Pennsylvania branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia. She played a role in the formation of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, which later became the National Women's Party. Katzenstein was also active in the movement for equal rights, serving on the Women's Joint Legislative Committee with Alice Paul, and championing the cause for the Equal Rights Amendment. She was the author of Lifting the Curtain: the State and National Woman Suffrage Campaigns in Pennsylvania as I Saw Them.
context_section_description: On April 9, 1916, Katzenstein and twenty-two other women embarked upon a train journey from Washington, D.C., to the western United States as representatives for the Congressional Union; the purpose of this trip was to garner support from enfranchised women in western states and to recruit attendees to a conference in Chicago. The women were on the road for 5 weeks and stopped in Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Missouri prior to their return to DC on May 16. In addition to Katzenstein, the following women were a part of this tour: Lillian Ascough, Abby Scott Baker, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Lucy Burns, Agnes Campbell, Anna Constable, Sarah T. Colvin, Edith Goode, Jane Goode, Florence Bayard Hilles, Julia Hurlbut, Winifred Mallon, Dorothy Mead, Agnes Morey, Katherine Morey, Gertrude B. Newell, Mrs. Percy Read, Ella Riegel, Elizabeth Rogers, Mrs. Townsend Scott, Helen Todd, and Margaret Whittemore. The "Suffrage Special" was successful, and the National Women's Party was formed in Chicago that June.
  Katzenstein remained active in the Philadelphia suffrage movement when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on August 26, 1920.
caption: "Suffrage Special": Arrival of the "Flying Squadron" at Colorado Springs, Colorado
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