Women’s Hour Parts 2 – 6 Notes
Declaration of Sentiments
Based on the declaration of independence, the declaration of sentiments was a copy of the aforementioned document with the exception that instead of addressing the British, it addressed men in general. Women called for basically equal rights; nevertheless, the right to vote became controversial and the primary cause for division even among radical women.
Susan B. Anthony
Started out as an abolitionist and temperance activist. Anthony eventually became friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and both of them would work together and keep the movement going for 50 years. Susan refused to get married as it would interfere with her speeches and commitment to the cause.
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The organization collected and fundraised goods to be sent to American soldier. Additionally, women also served as nurses during the war.
American Equal Rights Association
After a powerful speech by Frances Harper, a black woman demanding respect and justice for the mistreatment she received not because she was a woman but because she was black, Elizabeth Stanton proposed the creation of a women’s organization, the America Equal Rights Association, which was conceived in the 1866 women convention.
During The Kansas Referenda of 1867 there were disagreements between who would get the right to vote. Eventually, Stanton and Anthony started to take money from a very influential individual called George Francis Train who was a committed white supremacist. Lucy Stone was disappointed that Stanton and Cady decided to support only white women right to vote. Nonetheless, everything fell apart and no one got the right to vote. As time passed, congressmen would claim that this time they would focus on black men right to vote instead of women.
NWSA – 1869
Led by Stanton and Anthony, the organization pushed for:
1. Constitutional amendment granting women the right to