The Woman Who Lifted the Women’s Suffrage Movement
<p>When American women took to the streets to win their right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, one feminine figure stood out strong. Katie Sandwina joined the group of women performers from the Barnum and Bailey Circus that gathered at rallies to demand discrimination end. Katie served as vice-president of the eight-hundred-member Suffragette Ladies of the Barnum and Bailey Circus and was labeled by newspapers as Sandwina the Suffragette.</p>
<p>Katie gained fame working the center ring at The Greatest Show on Earth, billed as “The Strongest Woman that Ever Lived.” Standing six-feet-one, weighing in at two-ten, and feminine, with beauty-pageant glamor, Katie filled the house with her feats of strength. She bent steel bars, resisted the pull of four horses, held three grown men in her arms above the ground, and juggled thirty-pound cannon balls, among other astounding feats. Katie had outlifted the world-renowned strongman, Eugene Sandow and changed her name, in his honor, from Katie Brumbach to Katie Sandwina.</p>
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