[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H. Con. Res. 105 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 105


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2007

        Received and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                         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 Convention, in Akron, Ohio;
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 National 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 efforts 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;
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 suffragists 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.