...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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...Jennifer Duban Mrs. Blatchley Social Studies 20 Feb. 2024 The Women’s Rights Movement The howling wind whips through your hair and the frigid rain is pouring on your face, but still, you stand. The jeering crowd is violent with its taunts and jeers, but still, you stay. Your feet ache with seemingly endless pain, and you feel weak and could collapse, but still, you push onward. You are fighting for your rights, and the suffrage for you, your friends, and your children. You cannot stop now (Van Garnier). This was the daily experience of women suffragists during the Women’s Rights Movement while they were picketing the White House. From 1840 to 1920, women fought for their suffrage, rights, and equality of 20,00,000 women. Pioneers such as Elizabeth...
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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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...known as Seneca Falls convention was the first woman's rights convention to be held in the United States. This convention led to the launching of the women's suffrage movement which in later decades promised women the right to vote. The first source that provides background on the history of the passage of the 19th amendment is known as a primary source: SENECA FALLS CONVENTION (1848)1. This source is the Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration, a semi-weekly journal that includes recorded documentation from 1848. Within the recorded documentation it discusses the history behind women's...
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...The Women’s Rights Movement: Women’s Suffrage Jamuel Breeze Old Dominion University Abstract Women’s history is still being reclaimed. Women played critical roles in the twentieth-century American life. Women were workers, artists, parents, and women offered in many forms energies, insights, and strengths in periods of crisis and prosperity. Our forefathers wrote that all men were created equal, but growing up as a females has never been easy. When children are young there are not many differences between boys and girls, but as life continues things change. When young girls grow to become women they face discrimination, from the onset, as opposed to their male counterparts. This discrimination comes from society, and can even come from within their household from parents, siblings, and other family members. Women were viewed as only suitable for domestic works and were not given opportunities for advancement nor knowledge of other skills and trades. This essay will cover the route that women took in order to become equal; The Women’s Rights Movement, but more specifically focus on Women’s Suffrage. The Women’s Rights Movement Women’s rights movements are primarily concerned with making the political, social, and economic status of women equal to that of men while establishing legislative safeguards against discrimination on the basis of sex. The Women’s Right Movement began in 1848 with the first women’s rights convention being held in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth...
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... California lagged behind in recognizing women’s demands for an active role in public life. The movement for the right to vote for women started in Seneca, New York, which is known as the Women’s Suffrage movement. This movement was a fight for equality, which could be seen as the birth of feminism. Although there were many women who led the fight for equal voice, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were the two primary figures of the movement. Due to California’s political climate, the movement brought great disappointment and victory for women’s rights. Disappointment turned into resolve and set forth the movement in California. Women created coalitions and started to spread their word from southern to northern California for their voice to be heard by others. The movement in California was comprised of white middle class women, but they didn’t support Asians because they feared white backlash. Soon, the eyes of the nation opened in 1911 when male voters approved women’s right vote making California the largest state to approve of women’s suffrage. Women’s suffrage in California reached started out on a high note. In 1893, early success came when the women’s suffrage bill won approval in the state legislature but it was vetoed by the governor claiming it was unconstitutional. The suffragists later took the same issue to California voters in 1896, where Populists, Prohibitionists, Republicans, and unions joined the women’s alliance to promote the issue, but it was...
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...elements of the First Wave in U.S. Feminism were how different races and class divisions affected the feminist movement (Shaw & Lee). The movement of feminism was brought about by many: men, women, upper class women, African American men, and the divisions just keep going. Yet all these people believe in the same thing, so why cant they all stand together and profess it. If only it was that simple. Race was a key element of the first wave of U.S. feminism. Presented in the Documentary “Not for Ourselves Alone” viewed in class, a famous African American is introduced. He is a great African American male journalist who supported the movement for women’s suffrage and his name is Frederick Douglass. In the documentary Frederick Douglass stands and speaks at the Seneca Falls Convention supporting Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s’ petition for women’s right to vote. Without Frederick Douglass’ speech the vote may not have pass. This is an essence in one of the most vital situations of feminist history that show that race played a major role in feminism...
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...Alice Paul was major contributor to the Women’s suffrage movement. Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. She is the first born daughter to William and Tacie Paul, and has three other siblings named William, Helen and Parry. Her family followed the religious practice of Hicksite quakers. They also owned a large 264-acre farm that Alice and her siblings grew up on called Paulsdale. It was away from the town but not completely isolated from it. They all participated in some farm chores but mainly used farm hands to do the majority of the work. Alice remembering the advice of her mother said “When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.” Even though her family was relatively wealthy, they lived quite simply. Alice was raised to believe in gender equality which is said to have influenced her greatly throughout her life. Being a Quaker, one of...
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...Falls Convention was held (Loria, 10). This convention was the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement that resulted in equal rights for women. Before the Movement, females were not recognized as citizens and did not have the same privileges as males. Women were roles were solely in the home and family and therefore, at social and church gatherings they were also considered lesser. Although many women were discontent with their lack of rights, only a couple were actually courageous enough to make a change. Among the few were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention. With only five days between their decision to hold the convention and the convention itself, they drew up the Declaration of Sentiments; a declaration that would be...
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...The suffrage movement occurred around the early 19th century and it was one of the primary social transformations in American history. Women battled for their rights and thought suffrage existed as the greatest effective to change an unfair system. Iron Jawed Angels was a flick that covered a period in U.S. history with the tussles from women that battled for their privileges to vote. In a nation controlled by prejudice, it was very challenging for women to battle against the men. Females were continuously labeled and were measured to be a weaker gender. The idea that was involved was that women were always seen to have certain responsibility. Men believed that caring for the children was to be their only role that was considered appropriate for females. The women was seen as a substandard when they contributed to legislations but, males were always seen to be the strong ones and their thinking’s that without man we would not be anywhere. Suffrage is known as, the right or opportunity of electing and is often combined among the rights of residency. Nevertheless, not all individuals in the United States are automatically allowed the privilege of citizenship, not all citizens are evenly capable with the right to vote. Throughout U.S. history, many individuals were refused suffrage established upon race, sex, age, and salary. The nonexistence of widespread suffrage traditionally stemmed in a landslide of debates, disputes and encouragement for political improvement. However, in...
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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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...M. Courage Mistaken for Insanity The “Iron Jawed 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...
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...Born a slave in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. The Wells family, as well as the rest of the nation's slaves, were freed about six months after Ida's birth, thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. However, living in Mississippi as African Americans, they faced racial prejudices and were restricted by discriminatory rules and practices. Wells-Barnett's father served on the first board of trustees for Rust College and made education a priority for his seven children. It was there that Wells-Barnett received her early schooling, but she had to drop out at the age of 16, when tragedy struck her family. Both of her parents and one of her siblings died in a yellow fever outbreak, leaving Wells-Barnett to care for her other siblings. Ever resourceful, she convinced a nearby country school administrator that she was 18, and landed a job as a teacher. On one fateful train ride from Memphis to Nashville, in May 1884, Wells-Barnett reached a personal turning point. Having bought a first-class train ticket to Nashville, she was outraged when the train crew ordered her to move to the car for African Americans, and refused on principle. She was then forcibly removed from the train. Wells-Barnett sued the railroad, winning a $500 settlement in a circuit court case. But that decision was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court. This injustice led Wells-Barnett to pick up a pen to write about issues of race and politics in the South...
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...Women’s Role (1865-Present) Kimberly Burrows HIS 204 Joseph Scahill February 2, 2013 Women’s Role (1865-Present) Throughout history, women have suffered fewer rights then men and are discriminated against because of their gender. Historically, a woman’s main role was to tend to the home isolated in the domestic “bubble” and to raise their children while their husbands were away at work. In this paper, I will describe the historical significance of this issue from 1865 to the present. I will explain the historical developments that presented new opportunities for women in society. I will discuss the main individuals that were involved in these struggles. To conclude, I will analyze ways in which it contributed to an “ending of isolation” while assessing the challenges involved. Even today, women still face discrimination based on their gender. However, the role of women has changed significantly which has created a lasting and ongoing increase of women's rights. The woman’s role presents a historical significance from 1865 to today for many reasons. Prior to the Civil War, women were perceived as the weaker sex and were considered intellectually inferior to men. Their freedom was limited and they had fewer rights than men. Women were expected to marry, care for their home, cook, make clothing and raise their children. According to Manning, M. J. (2005), “Women were viewed as wives and mothers, whose economic rights were mainly to be supported by a male breadwinner and...
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...Although many of the accomplishments and contributions of women have been lost from the history books, women have played a vital role in the course of human civilization. From raising families to leading armies, women have made untold contributions to history. We find extraordinary people who just happen to be women, and these ones serves as inspiration for current and future generations - for both women and men. Starting on the Suffrage Movement, on Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. For almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting to win that right: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Perhaps the most well-known women’s rights activist in history, Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which was founded by Anthony along with the activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. On the 20th century, French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book "The Second Sex" became a landmark feminist work. It analyzed the treatment and perception of women throughout history. De Beauvoir, along with her partner Jean Paul Sartre, were...
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