Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw ( February 14, 1847 *, † July 2, 1919 ) was a leading American civil rights activist and women's rights activist.

Life

Shaw in 1880 the first female Methodist preacher in the United States.

Shaw was born in Newcastle- on-Tyne in England. In her childhood, her family moved to the United States. Shaw studied 1872-1875 at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. 1878 Shaw graduated from Boston University of School of Theology and received in 1885 the MD from Boston University. 1878 Shaw was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Hingham, Massachusetts, from 1878 to 1885 she worked as a pastor in East Dennis.

Shaw was a confidante of Susan B. Anthony in the women's suffrage movement. Shaw led the National American Woman Suffrage Association club from 1904 to 1915. It was followed by Carrie Chapman Catt. Women's suffrage in 1920 was enforced with the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in the United States.

Shaw was also active in the temperance movement. She served from 1886 to 1892 as superintendent of franchise for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union club. In World War I Shaw was in charge of the Women's Committee of the United States Council of National Defense. For this, she was the first woman in the United States, the Distinguished Service Medal.

Honors and Awards

Various schools received in the United States in her honor her name ( including in West Philadelphia ).

2000 Shaw was inducted into the National Women 's Hall of Fame.