Women’s Rights
For many years, women have been fighting for equal rights as men. The fight started years back, and continues to happen today. Many of the rights woman have now would not have been possible if it was not for the many women who stood up for what they believed in, and did not give up on the movement to make things right. Although, the fight for equal rights is still active, the freedom women have now compared to back in the 19th century is very different.
The first women’s right gathering in the United States was held in July 19-20, 1848. The main women to organize this convention was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Stanton was known to have a voice that people listen to. She not only fought for women’s right but also to abolish slavery. In 1863, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created the Women’s Loyal National League. (Women’s Right Movement) Following that, the women’s movement created its first national organization, the American Equal Rights Association. They were hoping to gain voting rights for all citizens. Stanton was a leader and a great motivational speaker. She urged women to get themselves and education and pursue their goals. Her speeches helped the women’s suffrage succeed in a few different states. Stanton received much support and help from Susan B.
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Some of these differences can be seen on the work field. Men still have an advantage in certain work fields, and get paid more for doing the same job as a woman. This issues are still to this day being fought for. Another problem women now are fighting is their right to do with their body what they want. Abortion being the main concern when it comes to having rights over one’s own body. These rights that were fought for years back, are still to this day a big concern today, because to this day there is people that are trying to take them
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist and a leader of the Women's Rights Movement. She organized the Seneca Falls Convention, which was considered as the first women's rights movement in the United States. She wrote The Declaration of Sentiments, which is often called one of the first steps towards women's rights.
In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, an organization devoted to gaining rights for women. Anthony made sure that Stanton was president as long as possible; Anthony served as vice president until 1892 when she became president of the NWSA
Susan B. Anthony created many organizations to help women’s suffrage. In 1866, together abolitionist, such as Anthony, and Republican allies, they formed the American Equal Rights Association (Garland 61). This campaign would eventually lead up to the demanding that change of the United States Constitution. Anthony along with other activists created the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (McGill 2). This association was created in response to whether the women’s movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone created one of the first organizations in New York, 1848. (Lewis B.R. Women at War: the women of World War 2; at home, at work, on the Front Line) The goal of this movement was to bring attention to the public about restrictions against women and to address the issues regarding equality between men and women. However, the main goal was to earn themselves the right to vote. These women promoted their ideas and concerns by speaking in girl schools and in public as well as participating in the hostings of parades around the White House. All of the women’s information was beginning to influence others, therefore, they received support from people outside of the movement. Finally, after all of the fighting women did to gain liberation, the government passed the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 which granted women a right to vote. (https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/home.html) Thus, after all the protesting, marches, parades and organizations, women’s voices were finally heard and they now felt more equal to men because their long term goal was achieved.
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Due to the fact that she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. With the experience that had come upon her and her friendship with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852.
In America the citizens defended women's rights. For example in 1820 on February 15, Susan B. Anthony was born. In 1852, she dedicated her life to women's suffrage and led the women's right movement. While she was fighting for women's rights she ignored all of the opposition and the abuse she was getting because she was standing up for what's right. She also campaigned for the abomination of slavery. In 1900 she finally persuaded the university of rochester to admit women. “I declare to you that women must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself and there i take my stand.” - Susan B. Anthony. She died in 1906 on March 13. On September 4, 1981. Also Beyonce Giselle Knowles-carter also known as Beyonce became
Susan Brownwell Anthony was a woman who started the women’s rights movement for the feminists who came after her. She was also a member of the anti- slavery movement and participated in many other organizations. Susan B. Anthony would define success as being able to help the people she cared about by joining multiple movements and even creating some of her own to protest for equal rights for all people.
Anthony was born February 15th, 1820. She was born into a family of activists and would listen to her father and his friends converse about politics. As a result, Susan developed formidable views regarding slavery, temperance and women's rights. She started out focusing on anti-slavery and the temperance movements. However, difficulties from male members of an anti-slavery movement group caused her to change her focus. These members prohibited her from voicing her opinion due to her gender and also refused to help her get the right to vote. She then realized that women and men were very far from equal, and believed that it was time that she and all women had a chance to openly speak in public and vote in elections. Susan believed she could make this happen with a lot of hard work and the support of her fellow women who stood beside her and helped her push for gender equality all over america. When she made the decision to fully focus on women's rights she accomplished a lot. She really started to work on women’s rights in 1854 when Susan started to petition for women's property rights and suffrage. Then, in 1863 Susan and her fellow women's rights advocate, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wrote the "Appeal to the Women of the Republic," which showed how dedicated and passionate these amazing pioneer women were about getting equal rights for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a major contributor to Susan's success. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton were great partners; Susan was the one who controlled the business aspect and Elizabeth was the writer in the
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton became co leaders of the women’s rights movement in 1851. The women’s right movement was held 1848-1920 and it was held to fight for women’s suffrage. This is important because us women/girls our freedom to speak our mind and to do other things that we weren’t entitled to do. This was one of our greatest accomplishments because it made history. It helped bring awareness of how differently us women got treated and it made a BIG difference because it not only changed others views back then but it’s still making a difference now.
She became involved in the abolitionist movement after a progressive upbringing. She helped organize the world’s first women’s rights convention in 1848, and formed the National Women’s Loyal League with Susan B. Anthony in 1863. Seven years later, they established the National Woman Suffrage Association. With her advocacy of liberal divorce laws and reproductive self-determination, Cady Stanton became an increasingly marginalized voice among women reformers late in life. However, her efforts
Who were the main people involved? Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott initiated the first Women's Suffrage Movement, July 19, 1848 at Seneca Falls Convention, New York. At this convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton echoed the preamble of the Declaration Of Independence. “ We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men and women are created equally.” Proving that when we declared our independence it was for everyone not just men. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed an American Equal Rights Association. The Association was dedicated to the suffrage goals regardless of race or gender. Lucy Stone fought about the 15th Amendment, Ratified in 1870, and that the Amendment states that, “ The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.Many of the women involved in suffrage began political work in the antislavery
Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to the rights of women’s labor, receiving equal pay, and leading the women’s suffrage movement. She grew up in a home where politics was frequently discussed. Her family supported an end to slavery as part of the abolitionist movement. In her early years, she was a teacher and became involved in the temperance movement as well as the anti-slavery movement. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to voice her opinion. This became a motivator for her to become a woman’s suffrage leader. A skilled, talented woman made a difference when she joined forces with Stanton. As mentioned earlier, Stanton and Anthony opposed the fourteenth and fifteen amendments for not liberating women. As Mayo states, “she published The Revolution, a radical paper, edited by Stanton (1868-1870), and lectured for over six years to pay off its debt.” (Rights for Women, para.3) She was arrested for voting in 1872. “She led a woman’s protest at the 1876 Centennial delivering a "Declaration of Rights" written by Stanton and Matilda Gage. She wrote and published, with Stanton and Gage the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1885)” (Mayo para. 5). Although she was arrested and it seemed like nothing came easy, she never gave up. Anthony was a hard working woman that rallied many in hopes of advancing women’s rights. “She gathered signatures on suffrage petitions at the state and national levels, undertook arduous state tours to organize suffrage campaigns in the states
Women’s rights have improved drastically since that time but there still is a stigma that men are better than women. This type of view is wrong and shouldn’t even be thought about in the world we live into today. Woman server a great purpose in the world we live in and should be considered equal in all aspects of life. If one were to ponder this idea seriously we can see without out women no children are born. The sad truth is that women still have to fight for their rights in every aspect of their daily lives. The typical women in society makes only .70 cents for every dollar that a man would make doing the same job. One would think that one hundred and fifty years later women would be considered equal counterparts to men. “There has been progress toward greater workplace equality, but we still have a long ways to
Over the history of time women were not allowed to have prominent roles and rights in society. Through history and time women have fought for the right to vote, to work for equal pay, the women’s suffrage, gaining property rights, and much more. The first women’s right movement in the United States of America, which started in the 1830s, arose from the campaign too end slavery. Many things such as evangelical Christianity, the abolitionist critique to slavery, and debates about the place of women in the abolitionist movement played valuable roles in the development of the antebellum women’s right movement. These efforts and large steps that women took to destroy and tear down the walls that limited them from having a voice still resonates today.
In 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed National Woman Suffrage Association, with the focus of achieving the right for women to vote. Soon many women suffrage advocates started focusing specifically on gaining the right to vote. Advocates continued to try to get the right the vote by holding conventions, meetings, handing out pamphlets, and placing