2017-01-10 Tue

On 19th July 1948, a 3¢ stamp was issued by the United States Post Office Dept to celebrate “100 Years of Progress of Women” or the 100th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, which began on 19th July 1848.

The purple stamp features three women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott who were the organisers of the 1848 convention along with Carrie Chapman Catt, the famous leader who fought for women’s rights.

Catt graduated from Iowa State Agricultural College in 1880, then wrote for newspapers in San Francisco and later became a teacher and school superintendent. Her efforts helped in attaining voting rights for women. She then got in touch with Susan B. Anthony, who asked Catt to succeed her as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

When the law was enacted, Catt founded the League of Women Voters and continued working for problems like women’s issues, war and child labour. She died on 9th March 1947.