Nurses Fight for the Right to Vote

Am J Nurs. 2018 Nov;118(11):46-54. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000547639.70037.cd.

Abstract

: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees women the right to vote. Its ratification in 1920 represented the culmination of a decades-long fight in which thousands of women and men marched, picketed, lobbied, and gave speeches in support of women's suffrage. This article provides a closer look at the lives of four nurse suffragists-Lavinia Lloyd Dock, Mary Bartlett Dixon, Sarah Tarleton Colvin, and Hattie Frances Kruger-who were arrested for their involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • History of Nursing*
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Nursing Staff / history*
  • Politics*
  • Women's Rights / history*

Personal name as subject

  • Lavinia Lloyd Dock
  • Mary Bartlett Dixon
  • Sarah Tarleton Colvin
  • Hattie Frances Kruger