Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw ( February 14, 1847 - July 2, 1919 ) was a leading American civil rights activist and suffragette .
Life
Shaw became the first female Methodist preacher in the United States in 1880 .
Shaw was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne , England . Her family moved to the United States when she was a child. Shaw studied at Albion College in Albion , Michigan from 1872 to 1875 . Shaw graduated from Boston University of School of Theology in 1878 and received his MD from Boston University in 1885 . In 1878 Shaw was a pastor at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Hingham , Massachusetts, and from 1878 to 1885 she served as a pastor in East Dennis .
Shaw was a confidante of Susan B. Anthony in the women's suffrage movement . Shaw headed the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915. She was followed by Carrie Chapman Catt . Women's suffrage was enforced in the United States in 1920 with the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution .
Shaw was also involved in the abstinence movement . She served from 1886 to 1892 as Superintendent of franchise for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union . During World War I, Shaw headed the Women's Committee of the United States Council of National Defense . For this she was the first woman in the United States to receive the Distinguished Service Medal .
Honors and prizes
Various schools in the United States were named in her honor (including in West Philadelphia).
In 2000 Shaw was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame .
literature
- Her autobiography: The Story of a Pioneer , (New York 1915) (as e-text at Project Gutenberg)
- Mary D. Pellauer: Toward a Tradition of Feminist Theology: the religious social thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Anna Howard Shaw , Brooklyn, New York: Carlson, 1991
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shaw, Anna Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Suffragette and Methodist clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle-on-Tyne , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1919 |