"America Has a Long and Storied Socialist Tradition. DSA Is Reviving It."

[LWolf]

63. In the late 19th century,

women were organizing and becoming active for multiple causes; many of the groups working for those causes were socialist groups. Not only were they working for suffrage, but also for immigrant rights, labor rights, and more access to education for women.

The first women's rights convention in Seneca falls was in 1848, which resulted, of course, in the "Declaration of Sentiments" patterned after the Declaration of Independence:

http://www.womensrightsfriends.org/pdfs/1848_declaration_of_sentiments.pdf

Frederick Douglas was there. He was a strong supporter of women’s rights, both before and after he supported the 15th amendment even though it excluded women. He originally worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony on universal suffrage. My point being, of course, that American women were active fighters long before 1918.