Born on this date in 1819, Julia Ward Howe is best known today for writing the words of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” But she was also a prominent opponent of slavery and an activist for women’s right to vote. She also happened to have a home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. So Alva Vanderbilt Belmont invited her to be the keynote speaker at the Marble House meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association on August 24, 1909.
Howe, then 90, spoke of her 50 years of commitment to the cause of women’s suffrage, perhaps aware she would not live to see it achieved. Indeed, it took another 11 years. As we celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering what a long struggle it was.
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