...Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were the main advocates for the women’s Rights Movement in the 1800s, and Alice Paul was the main activist in the 1900s. The women’s rights movement achieved suffrage by engaging in civil disobedience, having great leadership, and gaining lots of publicity. Engaging in civil disobedience was crucial for the achievement of gaining suffrage for women. On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony brought her mother and sisters to vote with her in her hometown of Rochester, New York. After she cast her ballot voting for Ulysses S. Grant, a US Marshal came and arrested her....
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...The story of women’s suffrage is a compelling one, and one that was not easily achieved. From as early as the 1800s, women used peaceful, nonviolent tactics to fight for the right of women to vote. During the trying time of the 1910s, women stood confidently in the face of adversity, and went to extremes to push for the passing of the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage began in 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention. The orginal organization was know as the National Women’s Party, or NWP. Another organization by the name “American Women’s Suffrage Association” was created later in time, and the two eventually joined together to create NAWSA. The organization began state-by-state campaigns, educating the nation about women’s suffrage. Alice Paul was a played a key role in the right for women’s suffrage, up until her death in 1977. Paul raised her own money for the cause, which showed that NAWSA didn’t fully support the amendment. When jailed, Paul went on a hunger strike, which quicked gained media attention. Paul was willling to go to the extreme to gain attention for her cause Alice Paul and other supporters picketed Wilson during wartime, which showed their rellisance and willpower....
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...During the late 1910’s, women did not yet have the right to vote, but suffragettes, like Alice Paul, began working toward a better America for women. During these trying years, activists for women’s rights endured numerous hardships and public ridicule. Slanderous propaganda suggested that women were communists. Some were tortured. Still, others lost their lives in the struggle. Few people understand the sacrifice made by these women, a sacrifice that ensured future generations of women would have a voice that was heard. Although women's suffrage in America was a terrible experience due to events such as unfair imprisonments, poor treatment and unnecessary suffering, the outcome was tremendous, resulting not only in their right...
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...Angels” movie won the Golden Globe Award, USA 2005, for best performance. In this movie, “Defiant young activists take the women’s suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.” The National American Women’s suffrage Association, or NAWSA, was an organization that was founded in May 1890. This was the largest suffrage group in the United States. The group had quickly become the leading organization of hundreds of other smaller groups. The main advocator was Susan B. Anthony from 1890-1900. In the 1900’s Carrie Champan Catt took over the organization. Later in 1904 Anna Howard Shaw was the president of NAWSA. When the organizations goal was achieved in 1920 NAWSA was transformed into the League of Women Voters. The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was created under NAWSA in 1913. However, in 1917, The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage split from NAWSA. The founders, Lucy Burns and Alice, Paul created NWP- National Women’s Party. This new group’s focus was the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women’s suffrage. Both NAWSA and NWP had the same concern. These women were fighting to have the same rights as any other American man. They protested for a constitutional amendment that would give women the same right as any men to vote. When asked by a doctor to explain herself, Alice Paul replied, “You want a place in trades and professions where you can earn your bread. So do I. You want...
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...if, women have not shared the same rights as men. The 19th amendment states that the right to vote shall not be restricted by gender. This amendment gave women the right to vote! Originally, only white men were allowed to vote. The 15th amendment of the constitution stated that it is illegal for the government to deny anyone the right to vote, however this did not apply to women. With the passing of the 15th amendment, the right for all men regardless of race was able to vote. Now with the passing of the 19th amendment, everyone over the age of 18 is allowed to vote. In my opinion, this amendment and the Women’s rights movement in general could have been avoided if the 15th amendment included women of all races as...
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...Women Movement of 1960s Women Movement of 1960s In this paper I am going to discuss how my own life would be different if one specific event of the 1960s had never occurred. I also would like to discuss how this event influenced my course of study and my choice of career path and how different my life would be if this event had never taken place. The event I am speaking of is The Women’s Movement if the 10960’s. Background Since the rise of dawn women have been treated as second class citizens and unequal to men. They were not given equal rights regarding their education, health, career and other aspects of their lives. In many civilizations women are treated as slaves and men considered them their property. From the beginning of History women are considered to be inferior to men. Even scholars, learned men and socialists of the early age called women as the greatest source of temptation and evil. Women were treated second-rated not only by the social norms, but also by the religion. Many religions of the world considered women as a species to gratify male hunger and produce his offspring. Civilizations were of the views that as women are physically weaker than men in the same way they have weaker mental abilities and powers. Even Christian Fathers gave humiliated statements about women e.g. St Jerome, Latin Father of Christian Church has said “Women is the gate of Devil, the Path of Wickedness, the Sting of the Serpent, in the World...
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...making a change in food packing processes. Eventually, well many years later there began to be changes in the life of a factory working but it was a while till changes were made. Another activist is Lewis Hine he was sant to take photos and interview children that worked in factories. He was payed to take photos to try to help other activities put rules on child labor. Hine was not always allowed to go into the factories so he would wait for them to come out of the factory then he would question them. He would even lie and say that he was there to take photos of the factory when he was really there to take photos of the children. The photos that Hine would take would be published in things like newspaper....
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...walks through the door, having been alive the whole time. Mrs. Mallard literally dies of grief at seeing he is alive and well. This intrigued me, as I wondered why she was so upset he wasn’t dead, and I wanted to find out more about women’s roles in 1894. At the time this story was written, women did not have many rights. They could not seek higher education, own land or property, and they could not vote. In 1894, the fight had started but the battle was still a long way from being won. This story was inspiring to me, and it made me want to learn about the fight for women’s suffrage since 1848, which is when the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20th (“Rights for Women”). According to the National Woman’s History Museum, it took women more than seventy-two years to get right the vote (“Rights for Women”). I find it amazing that the United States denied women the right to vote for that long. The fight for women’s suffrage, which started with the Seneca Falls Convention and is still going on today, reveals a long and arduous struggle. This paper will explore the origins, the early history, the advancements in the 1900’s, the final outcome, and finally the fight for women’s equal rights that still exists today. According to the National Women’s History Museum, “In the early 1800’s, women were second class citizens. Women were expected to...
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...amendment may be few in words, there is a story behind it that couldn’t be told with a million. The struggle to gain this amendment was lengthy and difficult, but the final product : “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex,” and, “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation (US Congress).” This short statement immediately inspired those who supported it and continues to act as fuel for the fire of feminists today. Many events led up to the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. In July of 1848, the woman suffrage movement got a great start in the Seneca Falls convention headed by Elizabeth...
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...Women’s Equality The hierarchy of man has ruled women for centuries. The control and suppression of free will was accepted as fact. The time of Women making change in their own lives through free expression started a revolution of achievements breaking the oppression. These revolutionary achievements gave birth to a new age of equity. Women’s equality is a topic that has been approached over the years. The common vision, that all people are to be treated equally. The race, religion, sex, age, and other differences should not matter. The day when a person looks won't be what they judged until they actually meet them. The Sex should not mater in one’s ability to perform similar tasks, but history has taught the hierarchy of men throughout society. The Declaration of Independence states, "that all men were created equal”. This was written with the reality of the hierarchy of man that has been inbred into society. Human equality was far from the true reality. Individuals of that era would start to approach their own virtue’s, which forever shape the future of society (Mosser, 2013 ). The most famous deontologist, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) stated, “that we have a duty, or an obligation, to treat other people with respect; human beings have dignity, and we must take that dignity into consideration when dealing with them. We also expect others to respect our dignity when they deal with us”(Mosser,2013). It is only humane to treat women as equal as they carried most of the...
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...Bachelors degree, in 1880. Right out of college, Catt became principal of a high school in Mason City, Iowa, where she quickly moved up the ranks—soon becoming superintendent of the district. After her days as a superintendent, she married Leo Chapman, a newspaper owner. During their marriage she worked for him as an assistant editor for the paper. After Chapman’s death, Catt returned to Charles City. In 1887, her formal work toward women’s suffrage began when she joined the Iowa Suffrage Association. As a...
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...In 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was drafted by Alice Paul, who believed that the amendment was the appropriate follow-up to the 19th Amendment in guaranteeing equal rights for all. The ERA was aimed at the large number of state laws that restricted women’s jury service, controlling property, and guardianship rights over their children, among others. However, the ERA did not get passed in the United States Congress until 1972, forty-nine years later. It was quickly sent to the states for ratification. Initially, the amendment was met with great support and was approved by 30 out of the needed 38 state legislators within the first year. Because Congress put a seven-year deadline on the ratification process, the ERA needed to be approved three-fourths of the states by March 22, 1979. The amendment seemed promising as federal politicians and a majority of the public showed support (Stidolph). In Oklahoma, the ERA received following from many organizations such as the American Bar Association, Church Women United, and the American Association of University Women. The amendment passed in the Oklahoma Senate with a voice vote. However, there was growing controversy...
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...Merrit Duke History of American Women May 27, 2015 Equality: Too Much to Ask For? The Equal Rights Amendment has been the source of much debate for almost an entire century now. Since first purposed by Alice Paul in the 1920s one’s stance on the potential amendment has been a dividing factor in the political sphere. Though the amendment was shut down in the 1920s there has been discussion about adding the Equal Rights Amendment into the constitution today. If the potential amendment was to be brought back up my stance on the debate would be in support of the amendment. For some background on the debate on the Equal Rights Amendment it would be good to look back and see where activists in the past were split and what about the Equal Rights Amendment has divided them. The Antebellum era gave two different types of women activists, the true women and the Early Feminists. The True Women argued for gender distinctions, separate spheres, domesticity, and women as moral guardians in their natural role as a mother. The True Women would be the women who be apposed to the Equal Rights Amendment and would be active in the fight against it. Arguing against the True Women were the Early Feminists who stressed gender equality, suffrage for women, equal education, human rights, and saw women as rational beings. This group of activists would be in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Next would be the Progressive era where the two parties in the debate would be the Early Feminists and...
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...The Empowering 19th Amendment by Chris Shively The 19th Amendment was not only an amendment that allowed women the right to vote, but was also a major milestone in the history of the United States itself. Leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized many of the parades, protests, and demonstrations across the nation to bring attention to the issue. The suffragists, advocates of the voting rights for women, made several sacrifices and the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment resulted in progress to America, one of which is educating new American citizens on the importance of this amendment. The suffragist movement has a long history and included many sacrifices. Beginning in New York, with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, women rallied for the right to vote. Twenty-one years later, few state constitutions allowed women the right to vote. However, women wanted it written in the U.S. Constitution. So in 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. Two years later, in 1871, a petition signed by Anthony, Stanton, along with four other suffragists, was sent to Congress asking that voting rights be given to women. The petition also asked that women be given the right to speak in Congress. The petition noted that, “Men are represented on the floor of Congress and so may be said to be heard there. Women are allowed no vote and therefore no representation cannot truly be heard except as Congress shall open its doors to...
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...Fannie Lou Hamer, a Fight for equality. Racial and social rights were the largest debate in America throughout the 20th century, and since the issues were so great America saw major achievements in social reforms on all fronts. Generally the leaders of these movements were educated middle class white women, like Betty Friedan, and Alice Paul. Although these women were major contributors to the cause, they claimed to be victims of the oppression of male dominance, but the privileged white women doesn’t even come close to the social inequalities and injustices dealt to women like Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer was a victim of racial and sexual discrimination from the day she was born. Although Hamer was born into a lower class, slave like family, she refused to become a victim of the system and rose to become a prominent figure for the rights of all black people especially women. As stated previously most rights activists came from middle class families who were sent through a college education. Whereas Fannie Lou Hamer was born into a family of share croppers, and was the last of twenty children. Obviously Hamer grew up in an extremely poor household, and she ended up dropping out of school to work full time on the fields with her family. In the 1950’s Hamer became a victim to one of her major forms of injustice, “She went into a hospital to have a small cyst in her stomach removed, only to wake up and find that she had been given a hysterectomy.” (Lee 21). Without her permission...
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