Agnes Morey was a suffragist from Massachusetts and member of the

National Woman's Party The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP ...

. She was known as a gifted public speaker and a highly effective political organizer who played an important role in the final push for women's suffrage.

Suffrage work

Morey was involved with the women's suffrage movement as far back as 1914.

Affiliation with the National Woman's Party

By 1916, she was a member of the National Woman's Party and a leader from the state of Massachusetts. She protested in front of the White House in 1917. That year she was sent to prison for protesting. A 1918 edition of ''

The Suffragist ''The Suffragist'' was a weekly newspaper published by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913 to advance the cause of women's suffrage. The publication was first envisioned as a small pamphlet by the Congressional Union (CU), a new ...

'' listed her as a Vice Chairwoman of the NWP. After women won the right to vote in Massachusetts, Morey was quoted as saying, "In this state from now on, our entire efforts will be concentrated upon securing ratification in other states.”

Prison Special

Morey took part in the "

Prison Special The "Prison Special" was a train tour organized by suffragists who, as members of the Silent Sentinels and other demonstrations, had been jailed for picketing the White House in support of passage of the federal women's suffrage amendment. In Febr ...

" tour of suffragists who had been sent to prison for advocating for women's suffrage. The purpose of this tour was to call on Congress to pass an amendment enfranchising women.

Boston protest

One of Morey's most notable activities as a suffragist was to protest President Woodrow Wilson's visit to Boston in 1919.

Campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment

Agnes Morey was an early supporter of the

Equal Rights Amendment The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, United States Constitution that would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It is not currently a part of the Constitution, though its Ratifi ...

. Alongside

Alice Paul Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the Unit ...

, she attended the 1923 convention in Seneca Falls where the ERA was introduced and presided over this historic event.

Personal life

Agnes Hosmer Morey was from Brookline, Massachusetts and descended. She was the mother of Katherine Morey who was also a prominent suffragist. Much of the press of Katherine Morey mentioned she descended from a socially prominent family. Both women worked as leaders of the National Woman's Party in Massachusetts. She died in 1924.

References

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